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

Mexican Americans for the most part, did not lose land to American settlers.

Wages in southern cotton mills were roughly the same as those in northern mills.

In 1886, Henry Grady announced the emergence of a modern, progressive, industrialized New South. Discuss Grady's vision, examine the southern economy and assess whether or not the goals of the New South ideology were actually achieved by the turn of the century.

The Texas Rangers protected Mexican Americans from Anglo violence.

All of the following statements regarding race relations during the New South period are true except

Republicans who opposed civil service reform were known as ____________________.

Discuss the importance of mining and ranching (raising cattle) to the economic development of the West. How did each become increasingly industrialized and what did that mean for ranchers and miners themselves?

Americans killed millions of buffalo.

In the late 1870s, thousands of southern blacks were encouraged to move west to Kansas.

Ida B. Wells was a southern black journalist who carried on an extensive campaign against lynching.

Longhorn cattle were introduced in southern Texas by

Most of the New South's iron and steel industry was concentrated in

Describe the major political issues in the late nineteenth century.

The "Ghost Dance" was

Eastern Americans were introduced to the myths of the West as they were entertained by ____________________ show.

Immigrant homesteaders from Germany and Scandinavia found it difficult to recreate ethnic communities in the U.S. West.

The Souls of Black Folk was written by ____________________.

Mugwumps, Stalwarts, and Half-Breeds were divisions within the ____________________ Party.

The cowboy tradition of rounding up and herding cattle arrived in the Americas with the earliest Spanish settlers.

The borderland communities way for life was dramatically changed by