Exam 15: The Ecology of the West and South, 1865-1900

Between 1870 and 1910, the idea of profiting from commercial farming in the Great Plains region became more appealing because _______________.

In decisions handed down in both 1884 and 1886, the Supreme Court of the United States held that Indians__________________.

Which fish was crucial to the life of the Northwest Indians?

Prior to the 1880s, the federal government believed that Indians could best be civilized by ____________.

Plains Indians altered their environment by ____________.

Most individual prospectors who discovered veins of precious metal ___________________.

Which of the following was true of the Exodusters, who migrated from the South to Kansas in the late 1870s?

Provisions of the Newlands Reclamation Act provide evidence of which of the following?

Which of the following is true concerning the struggle for supremacy between cattle ranchers and sheepherders?

Under the crop-lien system, a Southern farmer ______________.

From the experience of the Navajo people, one can conclude that ______________.

Which of the following was key to the successful granting of statehood to Utah in 1896?

The ideas associated with prior appropriation fostered the attitude that__________________.

The most common crop raised by Native Peoples in the western part of the country was __________________.

The Hatch Act of 1887 encouraged the advancement of agricultural science and technology by __________________.

Examine the factors responsible for the agricultural revolution of the late nineteenth century that made farming commercially viable in America.

Which of the following is true of women in the West?

The Dawes Severalty Act was based on the belief that:

In 1890, agents of the federal government attempted to _______________.

Discuss the impact, both positive and negative, of technological advances on ranching, farming, and mining in the late nineteenth century.