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The Dawes General Allotment Act in 1887 enabled Native Americans to claim 160-acre tracts. Reformers cheered the act because they believed it would encourage nomadic hunters to become settled farmers. The Dawes Act dealt another blow to tribal sovereignty because it
extended U.S. legal protections to the Native allotments.
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The Dawes General Allotment Act in 1887 enabled Native Americans to claim 160-acre tracts. Reformers cheered the act because they believed it would encourage nomadic hunters to become settled farmers. The Dawes Act dealt another blow to tribal sovereignty because it
extended U.S. legal protections to the Native allotments.
“Buffalo Bill” Cody was a former Indian fighter who became an advocate for Native American treaty rights. He wrote in his autobiography that he believed “the march of civilization was inevitable” and that “sooner or later the men who lived in roving tribes…would be compelled to give way before the men who tilled the soil.” How did Cody’s Wild West shows reflect this perspective?
The shows presented Native American traditions as historical curiosities.
Thousands of Chinese immigrants were drawn to the West by the California Gold Rush and faced government-sanctioned discrimination. Which of the following statements describes the terms of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Chinese immigration to the U.S. was blocked for ten years.
Theodore Roosevelt moved from New York to the Dakota Territory and became a rancher in 1884. He later wrote of the experience, “It was here that the romance of my life began.” Young men of Roosevelt’s generation saw the cowboy lifestyle as a romantic alternative to what historical forces?
urbanization and industrialization
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the connection between the Indian Wars and the “Americanization” of Native people at the end of the 19th century?
Reformers hoped to save American Indians from extinction through assimilation.
Americanization is an umbrella term for various changes which reformers tried to impose on Native American culture, religion, and lifestyles during the Progressive Era. Protestant missionaries hoped to change Native family structures in what fundamental way?
From tribal social units to small, patriarchal households.
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The Dawes General Allotment Act in 1887 enabled Native Americans to claim 160-acre tracts. Reformers cheered the act because they believed it would encourage nomadic hunters to become settled farmers. The Dawes Act dealt another blow to tribal sovereignty because it | extended U.S. legal protections to the Native allotments. |
“Buffalo Bill” Cody was a former Indian fighter who became an advocate for Native American treaty rights. He wrote in his autobiography that he believed “the march of civilization was inevitable” and that “sooner or later the men who lived in roving tribes…would be compelled to give way before the men who tilled the soil.” How did Cody’s Wild West shows reflect this perspective? | The shows presented Native American traditions as historical curiosities. |
Thousands of Chinese immigrants were drawn to the West by the California Gold Rush and faced government-sanctioned discrimination. Which of the following statements describes the terms of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? | Chinese immigration to the U.S. was blocked for ten years. |
Theodore Roosevelt moved from New York to the Dakota Territory and became a rancher in 1884. He later wrote of the experience, “It was here that the romance of my life began.” Young men of Roosevelt’s generation saw the cowboy lifestyle as a romantic alternative to what historical forces? | urbanization and industrialization |
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the connection between the Indian Wars and the “Americanization” of Native people at the end of the 19th century? | Reformers hoped to save American Indians from extinction through assimilation. |
Americanization is an umbrella term for various changes which reformers tried to impose on Native American culture, religion, and lifestyles during the Progressive Era. Protestant missionaries hoped to change Native family structures in what fundamental way? | From tribal social units to small, patriarchal households. |
In his 1902 novel The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, Owen Wister wrote: “The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box lies rusting over the face of the Western earth.” Novelists like Wister contributed to a key part of Western mythology by | depicting cowboys as heroic figures. |
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the connection between the Indian Wars and the “Americanization” of Native people at the end of the 19th century? | Reformers hoped to save American Indians from extinction through assimilation. |
William T. Hornaday wrote in The Extermination of the American Bison in 1889: “There is reason to fear that unless the United States Government takes the matter in hand and makes a special effort to prevent it, the pure-blood bison will be lost irretrievably….” This quotation sheds light on which component of the H.A.P.P.Y. analysis for primary sources? | The author’s goal in writing the essay. |
Some people believe that a tintype discovered in Fresno, California in 2010 shows Billy the Kid playing croquet in New Mexico in the 1870s. One of the historians who analyzed the tintype for the National Geographic Channel argued that a tree in the image had no leaves because New Mexico suffered a drought from 1876-1883. Which O.P.R.Y. technique might lead to the discovery of this information? | Researching the context and confirming or disproving theories |
Andrew J. Russell’s “East and West Shaking Hands at Laying of Last Rail” is the most famous photograph taken upon completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869. The image shows the chief engineers of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads shaking hands in front of two locomotive engines. Which phase of the O.P.R.Y. analysis might involve looking at the long-term impact of the transcontinental railroad on Westward expansion? | Explaining why an image is significant for historical understanding. |
Americans began to re-evaluate Westward migration in the 1840s because of the potential for new economic opportunities and the ideology of Manifest Destiny. What was the main obstacle which prevented many families from going West during this time? | The prohibitive expense. |
Passage of the Homestead Act in 1862, and completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, opened the West to thousands of new settlers. Prior to these measures, most of the Americans who had struck out in covered wagons on the Oregon Trail were | White, native-born farmers of moderate wealth. |
Sitting Bull told a reporter in 1877, “They say I murdered Custer. But it was a lie. He was a fool who rode to his death.” It was true that Sitting Bull did not kill Lt. Col. George Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. However, Sitting Bull set the stage for Custer’s defeat by | assembling thousands of warriors in his village. |
In the aftermath of the Fence Cutting War (1883-1884), Texas legislators passed measures to prohibit illegal fencing, as well as the vandalism of fences in general. These laws addressed the immediate causes of the Fence Cutting War, but they failed to resolve the real source of tension between cattlemen, which was | large ranchers claiming all of the best land. |
Hispanic people who gained citizenship under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), became ranchers, and then lost their lands in the Southwest to White expansion were nicknamed | Californios |