Post-Civil War Westward Expansion - Quiz 2

offering settlers large areas of land at very small fees if they would live there for five years.

giving cash bonuses to every settler who established residency in the new territories.

this would increase the market for silver.

the government was unable to raise funds by marketing bonds.

inflation and cheap dollars would favor the farmers, who were in debt.

American imperialism and its effects on the middle class.

the atrocities of the Spanish-American War.

the abuses involving big business trusts in America.

that Indians should henceforth own their lands as individuals rather than collectively as tribes.

large amounts of federal government land to Great Plains cattle ranchers who would contract to provide beef for the Union army.

that the land of former Confederates should not be confiscated.

an attempt to compensate the Indians for past mistreatment.

a movement to encourage the Indians to learn the ways of white society.

helping to make the "long drive" economically feasible.

bringing in farmers who fenced the Plains, eventually ending the open-range form of cattle ranching.

many ranchers preferred raising sheep.

severe weather conditions and overgrazing wiped out many ranchers.

went into a period of stable growth.

enjoyed a further boom until the 1910s.

weaken tribes, allot land to individual Indians, and promote assimilation.

increase tribal loyalty and reduce violence by allowing chiefs and tribal councils to act autonomously on the reservations.

Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican.

polygamy, as practiced by the Mormons in the West, was unacceptable to Congress.