Deck 17: The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Timber Culture Act, Desert Land Act

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Juan Cortina

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Board of Indian Commissioners

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Dry Farming

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Las Gorras Blancas (White Caps)

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Comstock Lode

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Transcontinental Railroad, Promontory Point

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Wovoka, Ghost Dance, Battle of Wounded Knee

Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Brigham Young, Deseret

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Red River War

Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Phoenix Indian School

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Barbed Wire

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
George Armstrong Custer, Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Plains Indians (Northern, Central, and Southern Plains)

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody

Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Dawes Severalty Act

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Sand Creek Massacre

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Sitting Bull

Question 21

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Edmunds-Tucker Act

Question 22

Which of the following statements accurately describes most Great Plains Indians in the mid-nineteenth century?

A) They lived in permanent villages and did some farming.
B) They lived in nuclear family units and seldom saw others beyond their immediate relatives.
C) They hunted the migratory buffalo herds and utilized the all of the animal's body.
D) They adjusted quickly to reservation life because they were used to living in tribal communities.
E) They lived in cities with populations of 50,000 to 75,000.

Question 23

The significance of the Treaty of Fort Laramie is that it led to the

A) surrender of Sitting Bull and his exile to a reservation in Florida.
B) establishment of the Great Sioux Reserve in what is now South Dakota
C) protection of the Bozeman Trail, which guaranteed that Indians could continue traditional nomadic migration patterns.
D) creation of a network of boarding schools whose purpose was to Americanize and uplift the Indian.
E) relocation of Chief Joseph and the Nez Percés Indians to land in Canada.

Question 24

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Dime novels

Question 25

Which of the following was not one of the features of Lakota Sioux culture?

A) It included the belief that life is a series of circles ¾ the circles of relatives, band, tribe, and nation.
B) It included a belief in a hierarchy of plant and animal spirits whose help could be invoked through the Sun Dance.
C) It included ceremonies in which young men "sacrificed" themselves through self-torture to gain access to spiritual power.
D) Children were subject to harsh discipline and physical punishment to teach them obedience and respect.
E) They adapted to the environment.

Question 26

Which of the following contributed to the fighting style of the Plains Indians?

A) Chinese immigrants introduced gunpowder in the nineteenth century.
B) The introduction of horses by the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
C) Hessian soldiers introduced firearms in the eighteenth century.
D) The French introduced swords in the sixteenth century.
E) English setters introduced them to the bow and arrow in the seventeenth century.

Question 27

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Owen Wister, The Virginian

Question 28

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
John Wesley Powell

Question 29

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Cowboys

Question 30

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Wheat boom, bonanza farms

Question 31

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Curtis Act

Question 32

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Joseph McCoy, cattle drives

Question 33

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
American Adam

Question 34

The 1877 Desert Land Act allowed western ranchers to

A) divert water from rivers for irrigation.
B) use raise both sheep and cattle.
C) claim 160 acres free if they lived on the land for five years.
D) acquire 640 acres for $1.25 cents an acre.
E) seize land by force if necessary.

Question 35

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Wild West Show

Question 36

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Nat Love

Question 37

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Canadian Klondike

Question 38

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
George Perkins Marsh, John Muir

Question 39

What decision did Congress make in 1871 that would change the nature of relations between U.S. whites and Native Americans over land issues?

A) It implemented a national reservation policy that would grant big blocks of land to various tribes.
B) It established the Board of Indian Commissioners to reform reservation abuses.
C) It abolished treaty-making and replaced treaties with executive orders and acts of Congress.
D) It outlawed white settlement west of the Rockies.
E) All of these choices

Question 40

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Yellowstone National Park

Question 41

Which of the following statements best describes the attitude of western state governments regarding woman suffrage?

A) They believed that the West was a place where "men were men and women were women," and only men should vote.
B) They generally supported woman suffrage, sometimes hoping that it would attract women, families, and economic growth.
C) They preferred to wait and see how the "experiment" of woman suffrage would work out in the more progressive eastern states.
D) It was not a major concern, because there were few women in most western states.
E) They refused to grant women suffrage because they feared women would vote for prohibition, put an end to gambling and brothels, and in general "clean up government."

Question 42

The Homestead Act

A) offered 160 acres of land to any settler who would pay a $10 registration fee, live on the land for five years, and cultivate it.
B) offered 40 acres and a mule to former slaves who relocated to the frontier after the Civil War.
C) granted ex-soldiers from Homestead, Pennsylvania, a parcel of western land as payment for service during the Civil War.
D) was devised by Massachusetts senator Henry Homestead to break up Indian reservations and provide 160 acres of land to Indians for farming.
E) created reservations to which Indians were forced to move.

Question 43

Where did a massacre of Indians occur in 1890?

A) Little Bighorn
B) Red River
C) Wounded Knee
D) Dead Man's Pass
E) Fort Laramie

Question 44

Which of the following statements concerning the first transcontinental railroad is true?

A) It was financed entirely by private capital, with no government subsidy.
B) It was built primarily with forced labor of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Comanche prisoners of war and black slaves.
C) It was completed in 1869 with the joining of the Union Pacific and Central tracks in Utah.
D) It was a patchwork of short state railroads, built with little thought to transcontinental connections.
E) It was chartered originally by the Confederacy in its hopes to take over the West and then continued by the Union after the South's defeat.

Question 45

General George Armstrong Custer's purpose in bringing his troops into the Black Hills of South Dakota was to

A) find a location for a new fort.
B) Christianize the Indians, using force if necessary.
C) confirm rumors about the existence of gold.
D) negotiate a peace treaty with the Sioux at Little Bighorn.
E) either buy the Black Hills or drive the Indians out of that region.

Question 46

In their efforts to recruit settlers in the West, railroad companies

A) drew millions of East Coast migrants.
B) made land available to a large number of women, sometimes as much as 20 percent of the grants made.
C) relocated entire villages of Germans, as well as Irish laborers.
D) None of these choices
E) All of these choices

Question 47

After the discovery of the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Nevada, experienced

A) an orgy of speculation and building.
B) an increase in the police force.
C) a religious revival.
D) an exodus of the female population to Reno.
E) looting by mobs and random terrorist activity by snipers.

Question 48

Much of the labor constructing the railroads throughout the West was provided by all of the following groups except

A) Chinese
B) Irish
C) African-Americans
D) Mexicans
E) Norwegians

Question 49

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, where did the federal government attempt to confine all Plains Indian tribes?

A) Texas and Arizona
B) California and Oregon
C) Nebraska and Kansas
D) Utah and Montana
E) Oklahoma and South Dakota

Question 50

Which of the following characterized relations between Anglos and Mexican-Americans in Texas in the 1840s and 1850s?

A) Intermarriage
B) Harassment of Mexican-Americans by Anglos and retaliation by Mexican bandits
C) Friendship cemented by their mutual hatred of blacks and Indians
D) Peaceful coexistence because most Mexican-Americans assimilated into Anglo society
E) None of these choices

Question 51

Which of the following is not associated with the Ghost Dance?

A) A cycle of ritual songs and dance steps popular among the Sioux.
B) Sioux songs and dances that sparked a movement against European American settlers to remove them from Indian lands.
C) Indian song and dance rituals that triggered fear among whites and the shooting death of Sioux leader Sitting Bull.
D) A performance by "Princess Wovoka" that became popular in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
E) A dance signaling Indian hatred of white encroachment and a precursor to one of the bloodiest conflicts in history at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

Question 52

Which of the following describes a method that many late nineteenth century eastern reformers wanted to use to deal with Native Americans?

A) They wanted to civilize and Christianize them, teach them English, and destroy their native culture.
B) They wanted to build special schools so that Indians could study and pass on their native cultures.
C) They wanted to put Indian men into the army so that they would learn the discipline of the white man.
D) They wanted to move them to cities so that they could be modernized and Americanized.
E) They wanted to allow them to roam the western prairies, far from urban corruption and westernizing influences.

Question 53

Which of the following characterized frontier communities?

A) cooperation among neighbors as a form of insurance in a rugged environment.
B) communal households and a trend away from nuclear families and toward frontier polygamy.
C) deep suspicion of neighbors or any outsiders who were not kin.
D) widespread homosexuality because of a shortage of women on the frontier.
E) matriarchal leadership, because the men tended to be away from home for months at a time.

Question 54

Settlers on the Great Plains

A) often gave up and moved on, rather than endure harsh conditions indefinitely.
B) were comprised of a large number of African Americans, recently freed from slavery after the Civil War.
C) adjusted quickly to frontier life.
D) built wooden homes similar to those they had left behind.
E) liked the temperate climate and flat lands.

Question 55

Which of the following statements does not apply to the schools that white reformers and the federal government established for Indians in the late 19^th century?

A) The schools attempted to get Indians to abandon their traditional cultures.
B) The schools focused primarily on vocational training.
C) The schools did not completely stamp out Indian identity.
D) They included boarding schools modeled after those established for emancipated slaves.
E) There were large federal tuition grants to enable Indians to attend Eastern Ivy League colleges.

Question 56

Which of the following was not one of the advances in technology that enabled the Great Plains farmers to increase the land's yield tenfold?

A) Gasoline-powered canal boats.
B) Efficient steel plows
C) Improved threshers
D) Specially-designed wheat planters
E) Improved grain binders.

Question 57

As a result of the Red River War,

A) Indian independence on the southern Plains came to an end.
B) Indians in Oklahoma preserved their freedom for another 20 years.
C) Indians defeated white soldiers in most of the battles but lost the war.
D) Indians were able to force the government to grant them control of North and South Dakota.
E) American soldiers massacred what remained of the Cheyenne Indians.

Question 58

Which of the following statements concerning "Buffalo Bill" Cody is not true?

A) He was a famous scout.
B) In the popular imagination, he came to represent an idealized hero.
C) He represented the American government in negotiations with the Apache.
D) He killed over thousands of bison in the late 1860s.
E) Edward Judson wrote a widely-read dime novel about him.

Question 59

The cultural adaptation of Spanish-speaking Americans to Anglo society went relatively smoothly in

A) California
B) Arizona and New Mexico
C) Texas
D) Florida
E) Vermont

Question 60

The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to

A) treat Indians as equals to white men.
B) inspire greater tribal unity.
C) destroy Indian tribes by allowing the greater use of force by the military.
D) turn Indians into individual landowners and farmers and to undermine tribal bonds.
E) provide Indians with the capital necessary to build a diversified economy.

Question 61

Who led a raid against Brownsville, Texas in 1859?

A) César Chavez
B) Alberto dé Léon
C) Eric Estrada
D) Juan Cortina
E) Don Delivega

Question 62

What crop was found to grow very well in the Dakotas in the 1870s?

A) Cotton
B) Tobacco
C) Rice
D) Wheat
E) Soybeans

Question 63

The 19^th century conservation movement

A) destroyed the old legend of the western frontier as the seedbed of American virtues.
B) emphasized the abundance of western land.
C) attempted to educate the public about the destruction of the environment.
D) lobbied against the continual flooding of the Sacramento River.
E) secretly funded entrepreneurs to avert government legislation.

Question 64

Which of the following was not one of the methods that Joseph G. McCoy employed to turn the cattle industry into a bonanza?

A) He built a new stockyard in Abilene.
B) He guaranteed the transport of his steers in railcars.
C) He earned kickbacks from the railroads.
D) He surveyed and shortened the Chisholm Trail.
E) He built giant stockyards in Chicago, where cattle dealers could raise steers cheaply and save large sums in transportation.

Question 65

What role was Deseret to play for Mormons?

A) It was the location where their religion was first established.
B) It was a place of worship for newcomers to the faith.
C) It was a new country that Brigham Young and the Mormons tried to create.
D) It was the last name of the original founder of the Mormon religion.
E) It was a sacred word, applied only to the most devout of the faith.

Question 66

Which of these individuals ¾ a president, a painter, and a writer ¾ were deeply influenced by the frontier myth, enjoyed the physical challenges of the West, and rejected the constraints of the genteel urban world of their youth?

A) Franklin Roosevelt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry James
B) Grover Cleveland, Jackson Pollock, Helen Hunt Jackson
C) Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Remington, Owen Wister
D) Rutherford B. Hayes, Asher Durand, Theodore Dreiser
E) Benjamin Harrison, Frederic Church, Hamlin Garland

Question 67

The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 occurred when

A) Congress opened 2 million lands for settlement in the Oklahoma Territory on April 22, 1889, and people raced to stake out homesteads.
B) gold was discovered in the Oklahoma Territory and thousands headed West hoping to get rich.
C) oil was discovered in the Oklahoma Territory and people rushed to stake out land and oil rights.
D) Congress forced the Santa Fe Railroad to sell land it had been hoarding.
E) thousands of "Exodusters" fled Mississippi for freedom in the Oklahoma Territory.

Question 68

Frederick Jackson Turner was

A) a painter of American western landscapes.
B) a historian who put forth the thesis that the frontier was the key to the American character.
C) the author of Ramona , a tale of doomed love set on a California Spanish-Mexican ranch.
D) a one-armed veteran of the Civil War who charted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
E) the author of Roughing It , a mining novel.

Question 69

What did "agribusinesses" need to be successful?

A) Minimal investments of capital
B) Minimal investments in labor
C) Heavy investments in equipment
D) 160-acre farms
E) Small government subsidies

Question 70

The Five Civilized Tribes were

A) punished for siding with the Confederacy during the Civil War by the relocation to their reservations of thousands of Indians from other tribes.
B) rewarded for siding with the Union during the Civil War by being granted exclusive use of the Indian Territory.
C) Christian Indians who could read and write and had adopted the ways of white men.
D) destroyed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
E) the only Indians granted the right to vote along with black freedmen.

Question 71

Why were there violent clashes between cattle ranchers and farmers during the late 19^th century?

A) Farmers were using barbed wire to keep roving livestock out of their crops and ranchers wanted them to roam freely.
B) Ranchers tended to be African American or Mexican-American, while farmers tended to be Irish or German immigrants.
C) Farmers paid high land taxes, while cattle ranchers paid only a small sales tax on each steer sold at market.
D) Ranchers wanted to fence off the lands to keep their cattle from roaming too far from home, which conflicted with the need for farmers to expand their land in order to be profitable.
E) In general, farmers had been soldiers in the Union army, while cattle ranchers had served in the Confederate army, so they were fighting a continuation of the War Between the States.

Question 72

Which of the following was not a reason the days of the open range and great cattle drives came to an end after the mid-1880s?

A) The ranges were overgrazed and too crowded.
B) Severe winters and dry summers in 1885 and 1886 caused severe hardships.
C) The demand for beef declined as more people turned to cheaper food.
D) The expansion of the railroads throughout the West cut across grazing areas.
E) Cattle prices declined.

Question 73

Whose campaign to protect the wilderness led to the establishment of Yosemite National Park and the founding of the Sierra Club?

A) Joseph G. McCoy
B) Hamlin Garland
C) Owen Wister
D) John Wesley Powell
E) John Muir

Question 74

To protect their interests, in the 1880s Mexican-Americans in Arizona and New Mexico

A) formed a vigilante group called Las Gorras Blancas (the White Caps).
B) lobbied the government for more soldiers.
C) built forts that protected their land.
D) hired mercenaries to patrol their land and expel any trespassers.
E) worked to convince the Mexican government to re-annex the American southwest.

Question 75

Which of the following statements best describes cowboys?

A) Cowboys were well paid and generally enjoying comfortable working conditions.
B) Cowboys were almost always white, because there was a deep prejudice against blacks and Mexicans among cattlemen.
C) Cowboys were usually the owner-operators of cattle ranches.
D) Cowboys were usually ne'er-do-well drifters.
E) Most were in their teens and twenties and worked for a year or two before pursuing different livelihoods.

Question 76

What did mining, cattle ranching, and wheat farming have in common?

A) Most people who tried their hand at them made money.
B) Slow economic growth made them safe investments.
C) Boom and bust economic cycles affected them.
D) The work itself was not hard.
E) They depended on massive government subsidies.

Question 77

The discovery of gold led to enough settlers moving to Alaska for it to establish its own territorial government. Where was the gold discovered?

A) near Anchorage.
B) in the Canadian Klondike.
C) in the Aleutian Islands.
D) near Juneau.
E) on Mt. McKinley.

Question 78

Nat Love and Bose Ikard were

A) the real names of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
B) black cowboys.
C) the discoverers of the Comstock Lode.
D) the legendary foremen who directed the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
E) coauthors of popular Western dime novels about "Deadwood Dick."

Question 79

Helen Hunt Jackson was among those Americans who were outraged by the federal government's violation of its Indian treaties and instead embraced a different approach to the Indians, which was

A) To establish boarding schools that would teach them the ways of civilized society.
B) To forge new cooperative relationships between members of neighboring tribes.
C) To fortify Indian cultural identity and traditions.
D) To provide college educations to Native Americans.
E) None of these choices

Question 80

"Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show

A) established the model that county fairs would follow in programming annual livestock contests.
B) was actually the brainchild of Helen Hunt Jackson.
C) presented mock battles of army scouts and Indians as morality dramas of good versus evil.
D) counteracted the dime-novel image of the West.
E) was more successful in Europe than the U.S.