Extra Quiz: Chapter 26

1. The Comstock Lode, discovered in 1859, was a major deposit of:

2. Mining boomtowns across the Mountain West typically followed a pattern of:

3. The open-range cattle industry was ended largely by:

4. "Soddies," or sod houses, were built by Great Plains homesteaders mainly because:

5. Homesteaders on the Great Plains faced major hardships including:

6. Which Native American leader helped lead forces at the Little Bighorn?

7. Commercial hunters nearly wiped out the buffalo herds mainly to supply:

8. Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" (1881) was written to:

9. The Ghost Dance movement alarmed federal authorities and contributed directly to:

10. Approximately how many Lakota Sioux were killed at Wounded Knee in 1890?

11. The Dawes Severalty Act's individual land allotments ultimately resulted in Native Americans:

12. The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 opened land that had previously been:

13. In 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that:

14. Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis has been criticized by later historians for:

15. The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry), founded in 1867, initially focused on:

16. "Granger Laws" passed by midwestern state legislatures aimed to:

17. The Farmers' Alliance of the 1880s helped give rise directly to the:

18. Among the Populist Party's core 1892 demands was:

19. Farmers favored "free silver" chiefly because they believed it would:

20. In the election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan ran as the candidate of:

21. Bryan's opponent in the 1896 presidential election, who ultimately won, was:

22. McKinley's 1896 campaign was notable for being funded and organized by:

23. The 1896 election result is often seen by historians as marking:

24. Which of these was NOT a major grievance of Gilded Age farmers?

25. Overall, the settlement of the "Great West" in this era involved:

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