Exam 16: The Conquest of the Far West

Describe the rise and decline of the western Plains farmer in the late nineteenth century.

The defeat of Apache leader ________ marked the end of formal warfare between Indians and whites.

Beginning in 1865, more than 12,000 Chinese found work building the ________.

The last Indian tribe to maintain organized resistance against whites was the Chiricahua ________.

The ________ established the first tentative links between Texas cattle breeders and eastern markets.

The Sand Creek Massacre of 1864

Secret societies, known as ________, were organized by Chinese Americans.

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

In his writings during the late 1800s, the popular author Hamlin Garland

In the 1870s, nearly one out of every eighty miners was killed on the job.

Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns

The power of the Navajo and Apache tribes in the Southwest was broken by Hispanic settlers before the arrival of the U.S. Army.

In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West

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

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

In 1890, the "Ghost Dance"

At the end of the Civil War, whites stepped up their wars against the western Indians on several fronts.

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn

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