Terms : Hide Images
| 5860239960 | Western Indians offered strong resistance to white expansion through their effective use of | Repeating rifles and horses | 0 | |
| 5860239961 | Intertribal warfare among Native Americans increased in the late nineteenth century because | Growing competition for the rapidly dwindling hunting grounds | 1 | |
| 5860239962 | The federal goverments attempt to confine Native Americans to certain areas through formal treaties was largely ineffective | The nomadic Plains Indians largely rejected the idea of formal authority and defined territory | 2 | |
| 5860239963 | The warfare that led up the the Battle of the Little Big Horn was set off by | White intrusions after the discovery of gold in the sacred Black Hills | 3 | |
| 5860239964 | Indian resistance was finally subdued because | The coming of the railroad led to the destruction of the buffalo and the Indians way of life | 4 | |
| 5860239965 | The federal governement attempted to force Indians away from their traditional values and customs by | Creating a network of childrens boarding schools and white "field matrons" | 5 | |
| 5860239966 | Both the mining and cattle frontiers saw | A movement from individual operations to large scale corporate business | 6 | |
| 5860239967 | The problem of developing agriculture in the arid West was solved by most successfully through | The use of irrigation fron damned western rivers | 7 | |
| 5860239968 | The "safety valve" theory of the frontier holds that | Unemployed city dwellers could move west and thus relieve labor conflict in the East | 8 | |
| 5860239969 | Which of these factors did not make the Trans-Mississispi West a unique part of the American frontier experience | The problem of applying new technologies in a hostile wilderness | 9 | |
| 5860239970 | By the 1880s most western farmers faces hard times because | They were forced to sell their grain at low prices in a depressed world market | 10 | |
| 5860239971 | The first organization to work on behalf of the farmers was the | Populist Party | 11 | |
| 5860239972 | One of the political goals of the Grangers was | To gain control of Republican party | 12 | |
| 5860239973 | Despite substantial gains in the election of 1892, the Populists in 1892 were unable to win a majority because | Most farmers in the Midwest were too attached to the Republican party | 13 | |
| 5860239974 | Which of the following was NOT among the political goals adovcated by the Populist Party in the 1890s | Creation of a national system of unemployment insurance and old age pensions | 14 |
