American Pagent: Chapter 26 Flashcards

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