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By 1880,more than 200,000 Chinese had settled in the United States.

A) True
B) False

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In the mid-nineteenth century,the Plains Indians were


A) usually able to unite against white aggression.
B) not as vulnerable to disease as eastern tribes.
C) among the least aggressive of all American Indians.
D) mostly sedentary farmers.
E) the most widespread Indian groups in the West.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Many of the Plains Indians subsisted largely through hunting ________.

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By ancestry,the western cattle industry was Mexican and Texan.

A) True
B) False

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In the mid-1880s,the open-range cattle industry declined as a result of


A) Indian wars.
B) severe weather.
C) disease.
D) competition from Mexico.
E) changing consumer habits in the East.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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In the late nineteenth century,regarding western agriculture,


A) the prices paid for American farm goods rose after the 1880s.
B) the reality of farming was very much like its popular image with the public.
C) commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so.
D) farmers increasingly owned the land on which they worked.
E) American farm families were relatively unaffected by the effects of world production.

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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In 1890,the "Ghost Dance"


A) was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians.
B) honored all the Indians who had died in battle with white Americans.
C) marked the resumption of hostilities by Plains Indians.
D) was a spiritual revival among Plains Indians, inspired by the Paiute prophet Chief Joseph.
E) All these answers are correct.

F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

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Buffalo Bill Cody headed the most popular ________ shows in the late nineteenth century.

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Describe the origins and development of the Texas cattle industry.

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By the end of the nineteenth century,the American West was firmly tied to the increasingly powerful industrial economy of the East.

A) True
B) False

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Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns


A) were nearly all single when they first arrived.
B) had few economic opportunities outside of prostitution.
C) often found work doing domestic tasks.
D) generally worked as miners.
E) often greatly outnumbered the men.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

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How did Native Americans respond to federal government policies-and to military actions against them?

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In the late nineteenth century,fences for Plains farms were usually made from


A) barbed wire.
B) stones.
C) wood.
D) sod.
E) brick.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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More than 300,000 Indians lived on the Pacific coast before the arrival of Spanish settlers.

A) True
B) False

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Chinese tongs were


A) secret societies.
B) prostitutes.
C) community officials.
D) merchants.
E) indentured servants.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

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In what ways did the American West not conform to its popular image?

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The Dawes Severalty Act sought the gradual elimination of most tribal ownership of land.

A) True
B) False

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What deep-rooted American ideals and beliefs are found in the mythic status of western cowboys?

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Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876 was made possible in part by an unusually large gathering of tribal warriors.

A) True
B) False

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William Cody's Wild West shows


A) showed the realities of life on the frontier.
B) proved to be popular in Europe as well as the United States.
C) did not include representations of Indians.
D) ignored the fact that Cody had never actually lived in the West himself.
E) often competed against those of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

F) B) and E)
G) All of the above

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