Chapter 17 Hw

What did the historian Frederick Jackson Turner argue about the importance of the western frontier in American history in 1893?

What was the outcome of Native Americans' settlement on reservations in the late nineteenth century?

In what manner did William Tecumseh Sherman successfully defeat the Comanchería?

What was the outcome of the second Treaty of Fort Laramie?

What occurred under the "outing system" of the 1880s?

What was the outcome of the Dawes Act of 1887?

who was Geronimo?

What occurred after Geronimo surrendered to General Miles in 1886?

What was the Ghost Dance?

Explain why the U.S. army gunned down unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota in 1890?

What was the Comstock Lode?

What was the easiest way to get rich in the American silver mining industry?

Which was the largest ethnic group in the western mining district of the U.S. in the late nineteenth century?

What was the impact of the discovery of precious metals on the Comstock for Native Americans?

Describe the labor unions in the western mining industry.

Describe the changes experienced by the Californios between 1860 and 1880.

What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

Describe the federal government's approach to territorial government in the West in the late nineteenth century.

Why did the federal government do so little to halt corruption and scandal in the western territories?

For what reason did hundreds of thousands of Americans migrate to the West in the three decades after 1870?

Which two factors helped stimulate the land rush in the trans-Mississippi West?

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 promise to potential migrants to the West?

How did the landscape of the trans-Mississippi West change between 1870 and 1900?

women on the western frontier in the late nineteenth century.

By the 1870s, homesteaders discovered that most of the prime land in the West was ____________?

What did the state and federal governments do to encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War?

What did settlers passing through the western portion of Kansas and Nebraska and the eastern portion of Colorado in the years after 1870 call the area?

How did the invention of barbed wire revolutionize the cattle industry? The wire allowed ranchers to fence in their cattle

29. Describe African American cowboys in the West in the late nineteenth century.

What was the outcome of the transformation of agriculture to big business in the South and West during the post-Civil War era?