American Pageant Ch 26

Front 1

What weakened the Plains Indians' ability to resist white encroachment onto their lands?

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-population loss
-disease

Front 2

T/F: The Plains Indians were rather quickly and easily defeated by the U.S. army

Back 2

False

Front 3

What was a crucial factor in defeating the Indians?

Back 3

destroying the buffalo, a vital source of food supplies

Front 4

T/F: Humanitarian reformers respected the Indians' traditional culture and tried to preserve their tribal way of life

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False

Front 5

T/F: Individual gold and silver miners proved unable to compete with large mining corporations and trained engineers

Back 5

True

Front 6

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.

Back 6

True

Front 7

T/F: More families acquired land under the Homestead Act than from the states and private owners.

Back 7

False

Front 8

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.

Back 8

True

Front 9

T/F: The farmers who settled the Great Plains were usually single-crop producers dependent on unstable markets for their livelihoods

Back 9

True

Front 10

T/F: The greatest problem facing the farmers was inflation in the prices of machinery and supplies they had to buy.

Back 10

False

Front 11

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.

Back 11

True

Front 12

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?

Back 12

True

Front 13

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

Front 14

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

Front 15

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

Front 16

Western Indians offered strong resistance to white expansion through their effective use of

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repeating rifles and horses

Front 17

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

Front 18

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

Front 19

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.

Front 20

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.

Front 21

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

Front 23

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.

Front 24

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

Front 25

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

Front 26

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.

Front 27

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

Front 28

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

Front 29

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