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

The notorious massacre of hundreds of Indian women and children by Colonel John Chivington (1864)in Colorado occurred at ____________________.

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

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

Southern cotton mills had a competitive advantage over northern mills because of

The Souls of Black Folk was written by ____________________.

Chinese Exclusion Act

Examine the westward expansion of the United States in the years after the Civil War.

By 1890,the Sioux and other reservation Indians

All of the following statements regarding women in the West are true except

Dawes Severalty Act

The economy of the "New South" was colonial in that

General Custer lost his life in his defeat at ____________________.

New South

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

Most Americans could not afford to participate in the Homestead Act.

Cheyenne leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse crushed U.S.cavalrymen at Little Big Horn and sent them into permanent retreat in 1876.

President Grant's "Peace Policy" toward the Indians

African American middle class​

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

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