Exam 16: The Conquest of the Far West

The town that reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians

The ________ Act of 1887 sought to assimilate Native Americans into the larger white culture.

The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were

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

The 1866 attempt to create a "long drive" between Texas and Missouri ended in failure.

In the late nineteenth century, the surge of farming settlement in the West

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

Permanent settlements were somewhat rare among the Plains Indians.

White hostility to Chinese immigrants was rooted in the perception that they were lazy.

From the time of initial colonial contact to the close of the nineteenth century, the relationship between Native Americans and white Americans was marked by a high degree of violence by whites toward Natives. What were the popular ideas and cultural beliefs found in white American society that motivated this violence?

In 1882, Congress responded to anti-Chinese political pressure by passing the Chinese ________ Act.

William Cody's Wild West shows

A homestead unit of 160 acres was too small for grain farming on the Great Plains.

Describe the origins and development of the Texas cattle industry.

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

Frederick Jackson Turner wrote of the significance of the ________ in American history.

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because

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