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31 Cards in this Set
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What weakened the Plains Indians' ability to resist white encroachment onto their lands?
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-population loss
-disease |
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T/F: The Plains Indians were rather quickly and easily defeated by the U.S. army
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False
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What was a crucial factor in defeating the Indians?
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destroying the buffalo, a vital source of food supplies
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T/F: Humanitarian reformers respected the Indians' traditional culture and tried to preserve their tribal way of life
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False
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T/F: Individual gold and silver miners proved unable to compete with large mining corporations and trained engineers
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True
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T/F: During the peak years of the Long Drive, the cattlemen's prosperity depended on driving large beef herds great distances to railroad terminal points.
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True
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T/F: More families acquired land under the Homestead Act than from the states and private owners.
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False
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T/F: Although very few city dwellers ever migrated west to take up farming, the frontier "safety valve" did have some positive effects on eastern workers.
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True
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T/F: The farmers who settled the Great Plains were usually single-crop producers dependent on unstable markets for their livelihoods
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True
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T/F: The greatest problem facing the farmers was inflation in the prices of machinery and supplies they had to buy.
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False
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T/F: A fundamental problem of the Farmers' Alliance was their inability to overcome the racial division between white and black farmers in the South.
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True
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T/F: The economic crisis of the 1890s strengthened the Populists' belief that farmers and industrial workers should form an alliance against economic and political oppression?
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True
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T/F: Republican political manager Mark Hanna struggled to raise enough funds to combat William Jennings Bryan's pro-silver campaign
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False
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T/F: Bryan's populist campaign failed partly because he was unable to persuade enough urban workers to join his essentially rural-based cause/
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True
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McKinley's victory in 1896 ushered in an era marked by:
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Republican domination, weakened party organization, and the fading of the money issue in American politics
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Western Indians offered strong resistance to white expansion through their effective use of
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repeating rifles and horses
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Intertribal warfare among Plains Indians increased in the late nineteenth century because of
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growing competition for the rapidly dwindling hunting grounds
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The federal government's attempt to confine Indians to certain areas through formal treaties was later ineffective because
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the nomadic Plains Indians largely rejected the idea of formal authority and defined territory
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The warfare that led up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn was set off by
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white intrusions after the discovery of gold in the sacred Black Hills.
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Indian resistance was finally subdued because
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the coming of the railroad led to the destruction of the buffalo and the Indians' way of life.
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The federal government attempted to force Indians away from their tradition values and customs by
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creating a network of children's boarding schools and white "field matrons"
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Both the mining and cattle frontiers saw
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a movement from individual operations to large-scale corporate businesses
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The problem of developing agriculture in the arid West was solved most successfully through
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the use of irrigation from dammed western rivers.
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The "safety valve" theory of the frontier holds that
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unemployed city dwellers could move west and thus relieve labor conflict in the East
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Which one of these factors did NOT make the trans-Mississippi West a unique part of the American experience?
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the problem of applying new technologies in a hostile wilderness.
WHAT DID? the large number of Indians, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans in the region, the scale and severity of environmental challenges in an arid environment, the large role of the federal govt in ec and social development |
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By the 1880s, most western farmers faced hard times because
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they were forced to sell their grain at low prices in a depressed world market.
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Which of the following was NOT among the political goals advocated by the Populist Party in the 1890s?
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creation of a national system of unemployment insurance and old-age pensions
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The U.S. government's response to the Pullman strike aroused great anger from organized labor because
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it seemed to represent "govt by injunction" designed to destroy labor unions
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William Jennings Bryan gained the Dem nomination in 1896 bc he strongly advocated
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unlimited coinage of silver in order to inflate currency
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McKinley defeated Bryan primarily bc he was able to win the support of
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eastern wage earners and city dwellers
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Ch 26 time period
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1865-1896
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