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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