Question 1

Early in 1866, a massive joint cattle drive from Texas to Missouri

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A)   saw the herds suffer heavy losses.
B)   proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets.
C)   established a link to the booming urban markets of the East.
D)   both proved that cattle could be driven to distant markets, and established a link to the booming urban markets of the East.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 2

What economic factors would motivate someone to move to the West during the second half of the nineteenth century?

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During the second half of the nineteenth...

Question 3

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the structure of the cattle industry became increasingly corporate.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Women in western mining towns were almost always prostitutes.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The real West of the mid-nineteenth century bore little resemblance to its popular image.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Compare the myths and the realities of the American cowboy.

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The myths of the American cowboy often p...

Question 7

Plains Indians were not particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases brought from the eastern United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Late nineteenth-century American farmers increasingly sold their produce in competitive international markets and bought their supplies in a domestic market protected by tariffs.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The Workingmen's Party of California was created in 1878 by Irish immigrant ________ to capitalize on hostility to the Chinese.

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The answer of The Workingmen's Party of California was created...

Question 10

The Sand Creek Massacre was a rare story of Indians killing whites.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876 was made possible in part by an unusually large gathering of tribal warriors.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was

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A)   Arizona.
B)   Utah.
C)   Colorado.
D)   Nebraska.
E)   South Dakota.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

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