American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 16: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST

True or False Quiz

1
Californios was the pejorative nickname that established settlers applied to the eastern Americans and Europeans who immigrated to the West Coast in the late 1840s and 1850s.
A)True
B)False
2
The Indians of the Plains and the Pacific Coast proved to be remarkably resistant to the diseases that afflicted Anglo-European settlers.
A)True
B)False
3
Although most historians have previously treated the buffalo as critical to Plains Indian culture prior to the 1880s, recent anthropological work has revealed that this is a myth and that the buffalo was actually relatively unimportant for these tribes.
A)True
B)False
4
Prior to the arrival of significant numbers of English-speaking settlers, an elite group of landowning Hispanics dominated life in California.
A)True
B)False
5
The "Rocky Mountain School" of artists mostly painted realistic pictures that showed the rigorous lives of trappers, miners, and cowboys.
A)True
B)False
6
"Coolies" were Chinese indentured servants whose status was somewhat like slavery.
A)True
B)False
7
In the late nineteenth century, most California residents favored increased Chinese immigration because there was a labor shortage and the Chinese would work for low wages.
A)True
B)False
8
The Timber Culture Act, Desert Land Act, and Timber and Stone Act provided avenues for westerners to acquire larger tracts of land than were allowed under the Homestead Act.
A)True
B)False
9
The working class in the American West was racially diversified and stratified.
A)True
B)False
10
The so-called Turner thesis argued that the existence of the frontier was vitally important to the shaping of the American character.
A)True
B)False
11
Prostitution was common in the mining boomtowns.
A)True
B)False
12
When the "long drive" era began, there was an excess of cattle in Texas, so cowboys drove huge herds to rail centers in Louisiana, especially New Orleans, for shipment to the East.
A)True
B)False
13
Although the Bureau of Indian Affairs was chronically underfunded and understaffed, the reform-minded whites who ran it established a solid reputation for honesty, efficiency, and sincere concern for the well-being of the Native Americans they served.
A)True
B)False
14
Although small, the Nez Percé tribe was composed of particularly effective warriors who engaged in raids throughout the southern plains until Chief Joseph was finally captured in 1877.
A)True
B)False
15
The first transcontinental railroad was completed shortly before the beginning of the Civil War, but due to wartime disruption it did not carry much traffic until the end of the 1860s.
A)True
B)False
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