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| 158626224 | Western Indians offered strong resistance to white expansion through their effective use of | repeating rifles and horses | |
| 158626225 | Inter-tribal warfare among Plains Indians increased in the late century because of | growing competition for the rapidly dwindling hunting grounds | |
| 158626226 | The federal government's attempt to confine Indians to certain ares through the formal treaties was largely ineffective because | the nomadic Plains Indians largely rejected the idea of formal authority and defined territory | |
| 158626227 | The warfare that led up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn was set off by | white intrusions after the discovery of gold in the sacred Black Hills | |
| 158626228 | Indian resistance was finally subdued because | the coming of the railroad led to the destruction of the buffalo and the Indians' way of life | |
| 158626229 | The federal government attempted to force Indians away from their traditional values and customs by | creating a network of children's boarding schools and white "field matrons" | |
| 158626230 | Both the minding and cattle frontiers saw | a movement from individual operations to large-scale corporate businesses | |
| 158626231 | The problem of developing agriculture int eh arid West was solved most successfully through | the use of irrigation from dammed western rivers | |
| 158626232 | The "safety valve" theory of the frontier holds that | unemployed city dwellers could move west and thus relieve labor conflict in the East | |
| 158626233 | Which one of these factors did not make the trans-Mississippi West a unique part of the American frontier experience? | the problem of applying new technologies in a hostile wilderness | |
| 158626234 | By the 1880s, most western farmers faced hard times because | they were forced to sell their grain at low prices in a depressed world market | |
| 158626235 | Which of the following was not among the political goals advocated by the Populist Party in the 1890s? | Creation of a national system of unemployment insurance and old-age pensions | |
| 158626236 | The U.S. government's response to the Pull man strike aroused great anger form organized labor because | is seemed to represent "government by injunction" designed to destroy labor unions | |
| 158626237 | William Jennings Bryan gained the Democratic nomination in 1896 because he strongly advocated | unlimited coinage of silver in order to inflate currency | |
| 158626238 | McKinley defeated Bryan primarily because he was able to win the support of | eastern wage earners and city dwellers | |
| 158626239 | Major northern Plains Indian nation that fought and eventually lost a bitter war against the U.S. Army, 1876-1877 | Sioux | |
| 158626240 | Southwestern Indian tribe lied by Geronimo that carried out some of the last fighting against white conquest | Apaches | |
| 158626241 | Generally poor areas where vanquished Indians were eventually confined under federal control | Reservations | |
| 158626242 | Indian religious movement, originating out of the sacred Sun Dance that the federal government attempted tos tamp out in 1890 | Ghost Dance | |
| 158626243 | Federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish Indians as individual farmers | Dawes Severalty Act | |
| 158626244 | Huge silver and gold deposit that brought wealth and statehood to Nevada | Comstock Lode | |
| 158626245 | General term for the herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the railroad terminals of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming | Long Drive | |
| 158626246 | Federal law that offered generous land opportunities to poorer farmers but also provided the unscrupulous with opportunities for hoaxes and fraud | Homestead Act | |
| 158626247 | Improved type of fencing that enabled farmers to enclose land on the treeless plains | barbed wire | |
| 158626248 | Former "Indian Territory" where "sooners" tried to get the jump on "boomers" when it was opened for settlement in 1889 | Oklahoma | |
| 158626249 | Third political party that emerged int eh 1890s to express rural grievances and mount major attacks on the Democrats and Republicans | populists | |
| 158626250 | Popular pamphlet written by William Hope Harvey that portrayed pro-silver arguments triumphing over the traditional views of bankers and economics professors | Coin's Financial School | |
| 158626251 | Bitter labor conflict in Chicago that brought federal intervention and the jailing of union leader Eugene V. Debs | Pullman Strike | |
| 158626252 | Spectacular conventions speech by a young pro-silver advocate that brought him the Democratic nomination in 1896 | Cross of Gold Speech | |
| 158626253 | Popular term for those who favored the "status quo" in metal money and opposed the pro-silver Byranites in 1896 | Goldbugs |
