The Societies of the Far West
Native American Weaknesses: they were out___ and out___.
What is outmanned and outgunned?
The discovery of ____ triggered the mass migration of thousands to the West.
What is gold?
This battle featured the largest Native American Army in American history.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Commercial farmers produced these kinds of crops.
What are cash-crops?
The Chinese played an important role in building ____.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Labor in the West: social and economic mobility was _____.
What is limited?
Decimation of _____ and poor ______ destroyed Native Americans' way of life.
What is decimation of buffalo and poor administration?
______ ______ put many farmers in debt and forced many to abandon their farms.
What are falling prices?
Who were the Spanish?
Women won the vote ____ in the West than the rest of the nation.
What is earlier?
White vigilantes participated in _______ for sport and elimination of Native American tribes.
What is "Indian Hunting"?
The ______ of large Western farms caused farmers to lack access to proper education and medical facilities.
What is isolation?
In ____, Chinese immigration increased dramatically.
What is 1848?
This can be described as the realization that the West was not the land of opportunity that people thought.
What is Loss of Utopia?
White demands for access to land in Indian territory created _______ policy.
What is concentration policy?
_____ _____ on loans made it impossible for farmers to lose their debt.
What are interest rates?
Congress passed _____ which banned Chinese migration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The idea of the Western frontier was romanticized by American ___ and ________.
What is art and literature?
The _______ of 1887 allowed for the gradual elimination of tribal land ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
The most important factor encouraging Western settlement was _______.
What is the railroad?