Challenges in the Late 1800s (Practice)

From the 1850s onward, the American West--

• had the widest diversity of people in the nation
• had the smallest Chinese immigrant population in the nation
• was valued for its limitless water supply
• was the most urbanized part of the US

In the mid-1800s, the most numerous and nomadic Native Americans in the US were the --

• Plains Indians
• Chinook Indians
• Klamath Indians
• Pueblo Indians

The attack of Colorado militia on an unarmed camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe was known as the --

• Red River War
• Wounded Knee
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Sand Creek Massacre

The Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 (Dawes Act) --

• recognized Native American tribes as Independent nations
• presented land to individual tribes
• granted each Indian family a 160-acre farmstead
• improved the reservation system

The leader of the Sioux during the Ghost Dance War at Wounded Knee was --

• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Red Cloud
• Chief Piapot

The US encouraged people to move to the Great Plains in 1862 through the --

• Dawes General Allotment Act
• Las Gorras Blancas
• Homestead Act
• Farmers' Alliance

Which of the following factors contributed to the end of the open-range system?

• An increase in the price of beef
• The invention of barbed wire
• The development of railroads
• The disappearance of big mining companies

William M. "Boss" Tweed was a powerful New York City politician who was at the center of --

• the populist movement
• corrupt political dealings
• the Republican party
• the Grant administration

Which president was assassinated by a man angry that he did not get a government job?

• Abraham Lincoln
• John F. Kennedy
• Chester Arthur
• William McKinley

The Civil Service Act in 1883 was enacted to counter --

• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• the gold standard
• high tariffs
• the Spoils System