The American Pageant: Chapter 26 Flashcards

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