Exam 2: A Transformed Nation: The West and the New South, 1865-1900

Under the Homestead Act,people who lived on the land they claimed and improved it could receive the title to it after ________________ years.

The writer who offered a first-hand account of the spiritual suffering of Indian children in boarding schools run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs was Helen Hunt Jackson.

____________________ led the campaign to crush the Sioux in retaliation for the defeat of Custer and his men at Little Big Horn.

Battle of Little Big Horn

Describe the role of the United States' federal government in facilitating settlement of the West.

Republicans won the presidency and gained control of both houses of Congress in 1888.

In 1867,the Union Pacific railroad employed workforce that was almost 90 percent Chinese.

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

Longhorn cattle were introduced in southern Texas by

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

Itinerant and ethnically diverse labor was common in the west.

The McKinley Tariff of 1890

The Homestead Act was unusual in that it allowed _________________________ to claim land.

The Cheyenne at Sand Creek were led by

Southern cotton output doubled between 1878 and 1898.

In the mining frontier,

Which of these best exemplifies the Lost Cause?

Ghost Dance/Wounded Knee

The borderland communities way for life was dramatically changed by

Describe the major political issues in the late nineteenth century.