Exam 16: The Conquest of the Far West

What deep-rooted American ideals and beliefs are found in the mythic status of western cowboys?

Many of the Plains Indians subsisted largely through hunting ________.

Buffalo Bill Cody headed the most popular ________ shows in the late nineteenth century.

Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876 was made possible in part by an unusually large gathering of tribal warriors.

By 1880,more than 200,000 Chinese had settled in the United States.

The Dawes Severalty Act sought the gradual elimination of most tribal ownership of land.

In the mid-1880s,the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of

In the late nineteenth century,fences for Plains farms were usually made from

In 1890,the "Ghost Dance"

Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns

In the late nineteenth century,regarding western agriculture,

Chinese tongs were

Describe the origins and development of the Texas cattle industry.

William Cody's Wild West shows

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

In what ways did the American West not conform to its popular image?

How did Native Americans respond to federal government policies-and to military actions against them?

By the end of the nineteenth century,the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.

In the mid-nineteenth century,the Plains Indians were

By ancestry,the western cattle industry was Mexican and Texan.