Exam 18: A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

Almost half of the homesteaders who settled the Great Plains were unable to "prove" their claim and lost their land.

____________________ was the only Democrat elected president during the Gilded Age.

The postwar boom in the range cattle industry began in which of the following?

The Cheyenne at Sand Creek were led by

Most Chinese immigrants to California did not intend on staying there permanently.

The basic institution of the southern rural economy after the Civil War was the "crop lien system."

The coming of the railroads opened a new era of prosperity for the borderland communities.

The first cattle trail ended 800 miles north of Texas in ____________________.

The first immigration restriction legislation in the U.S. was directed toward

Spanish-speaking peoples in the Southwest and California managed to preserve much of their distinctive culture.

Nine out of ten western cowboys were born in the eastern United States. Middle class black women became leaders of the movement for "racial uplift."

By the 1870s, the major mineral being mined in the West was

Describe the U.S. government's policies in dealing with the Plains Indians after the Civil War.

In Williams v. Mississippi, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the use of literacy and property qualifications to limit voting rights.

In the Sand Creek massacre half of the Indians killed were women and children.

The man who assassinated President Garfield was ____________________.

According to Frederick Jackson Turner, the frontier shaped a new kind of democratic egalitarian culture.

The McKinley Tariff of 1890

The Foreign Miners Tax of 1850 effectively forced ____________________ out of the California gold fields.

During the 1890s, the American West was the scene of many "wars" between farmers and large ranchers.