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1
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What was the pony express?

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A system for taking mail from Missouri to the west coast.

2
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What killed the pony express?

A

telegraph

3
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What event did the Indian Wars begin with?

A

the Sand Creek Massacre

4
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What event did the Indian wars end with?

A

the capture of Geronimo

5
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Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints originally settled where and moved to where?

A

Utah to California

6
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The Cattle Kingdom of the American West was dependent on what?

A

the presence of unfenced range that provided free feed and open trails

7
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Crucial to opening the Great Plains to large-scale agriculture was what?

A

new transportation and farming technologies

8
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How did American agriculture change in the trading aspect?

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a shift from local trading to international trading

9
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Which US president symbolized the legendary American West?

A

Theodore Roosevelt

10
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The book A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson did what?

A

sharply criticized the US government for failing to honor its treaties with the Indian tribes

11
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The event that epitomized the fate of Native Americans occurred where?

A

Wounded Knee

12
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What did Frederick Jackson Turner argue?

A

the moving western frontier shaped American democracy and the American character from the colonial era until 1890

13
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Who was the leader of the Nez Perce who said “I will fight no more forever” when he surrendered?

A

Chief Joseph

14
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What treaty recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation Medicine Lodge Treaty?

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Treaty of Fort Laramie

15
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What was the name of the lode of silver found along the Carson River in Nevada?

A

Comstock Lode

16
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What happened at the Sand Creek Massacre?

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a 700-man force ofColorado Territorymilitia attacked and destroyed a peaceful village ofCheyenneandArapaho.

17
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What did the Ghost Dance predict?

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a huge flood is going to come and kill all the white people and the land would be returned to the Natives

18
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What did the homestead act do?

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gave an applicant an ownership of land at minimal cost consisting of 160 acres as long as they improved the land

19
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What were Hellorados?

A

ethically diverse towns in the west that were lawless

20
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Who was one of the first cowboys?

A

Joseph G. McCoy

21
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What is the name of Hispanic cowboys?

A

vaqueros

22
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Who won at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

A

the Sioux

23
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What was the name of the massacre in response to the Ghost Dance?

A

Wounded Knee

24
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During the late 1800s, farmers supported free and unlimited coinage of silver mainly because they believed that it would lead to?:

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higher prices for farm products.

25
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According to the new view of the environment that was developing in the late 19c, nature existed to be what?:

A

tamed and conquered

26
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Open-range ranching came to an end due to what?:

A

fencing of the plains with barbed wire.

27
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After the Civil War, the West favored the issue of greenbacks because?:

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

28
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The purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to?:

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

29
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Six states were created from the western territories in 1889 and 1890. These states were not admitted before 1889 because?:

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