Chapter 16 Review APUSH

By the mid-1840s, the American West

• closely resembled its popular image

• had seen the elimination of nearly all Indian tribes

• was extensively populated

• contained few immigrants from the United States

Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacfific coast of the Far West?

• Chumash

• Creek

• Chinook

• Pomo

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

• moved from initial hostility to gradual acceptance

• was one of consistent acceptance

• was one of consistent hostility

• moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility

Chinese tongs were

• secret societies

• prostitues

• community officials

• merchants

By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous U.S. that had NOT been granted statehood was

• Arizona

• Utah

• Colorado

• Nebraska

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the working class in the western economy was

• highly multiracial

• highly divided along racial lines

• paid higher wages than workers in the East

• All of these answers are correct

Mining in the West

• did not see any great mineral strikes until after the Civil War

• flourished until the 1930s

• saw corporations moved in first, followed by individual prospectors

• saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations

Women in the 19th century western mining towns

• generally worked as miners

• often found work doing domestic tasks

• had few economic opportunities outside of prostitution

• often greatly outnumbered the men

In the 1860s, cattle drives from Texas to Missouri

• saw the herds suffer heavy losses

• proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets

• established a link to the booming urban markets of the East

• Alll of these answers are correct

The town that reigned as the railroad of the cattle kingdom for many years was

• Sedalia, Missouri

• Abilene, Kansas

• Dallas, Texas

• Omaha, Nebraska