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

The last battle between the U.S.Army and American Indians,often recognized symbolically as the death of Plains Indian culture,was fought at

The U.S.Army encouraged the slaughter of millions of buffalo

Southern cotton production after the Civil War was so plentiful,prices for it declined tremendously.

The Mugwumps were small in number but large in influence.

IDENTIFICATIONS -range war

The most environmentally destructive type of mining in California's gold rush was

When he won the election of 1884,Grover Cleveland became the first Democrat to be elected in 28 years.

President Grant's "Peace Policy" toward the Indians

Very few longhorns made it up the Chisholm Trail.

The social and political condition of Mexican Americans during the course of the nineteenth century

The biggest boost to the cattle industry in the late nineteenth century was the

Compare and contrast the federal and state governments' treatment of the Plains Indians and Mexican Americans in the late nineteenth century.

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

The Republican Party disappeared from the South after 1877.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Turner thesis

Fredrick Jackson Turner's thesis included an early call for environmental protection of the west.

Discuss the major issues in national politics during the period 1876 through 1892.