Exam 16: The Conquest of the Far West

The Sand Creek massacre of 1864

Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific Coast of the Far West?

In the late nineteenth century,"range wars" in the West were between

In 1886,the end of formal warfare between the United States and American Indians was marked by the surrender of

In the mid-nineteenth century,Hispanic society in the Southwest grew,despite the increasing Anglo-American settlement in that area.

Plains Indians were formidable foes of white settlers because they were usually able to present a united front against those white settlers.

Commercial farmers in the Midwest and West were forced to become self-sufficient.

Describe the origins and development of the Texas cattle industry.

The first economic boom in the Far West came in the ________ industry.

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

In the second half of the nineteenth century,the working class in the western economy was

More than 300,000 Indians lived on the Pacific Coast before the arrival of Spanish settlers.

Most of the settlers who migrated to the American West in the post-Civil War era were foreign-born immigrants from Europe.

What economic factors would motivate someone to move to the West during the second half of the nineteenth century?

Permanent settlements were rare among the Plains Indians.

In Owen Wister's novel,The Virginian (1902),the American cowboy was

Range wars in the West were fought between farmers and ________.

Before 1860,the traditional policy of the federal government was to regard Indians as

The most widespread Indian groups in the West were the ________.

In 1890 at Wounded Knee,South Dakota,