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| The last battle between the U.S. Army and American Indians, often recognized symbolically as the death of Plains Indian culture, was fought at |
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| mandated racial segregation in public facilities. |
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| In 1890, the Bureau of Census announced that |
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| the frontier which had separated the settled from unsettled areas of the continent, no longer existed. |
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| Most laborers in the west |
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| were itinerant and temporary. |
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| The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson stated that |
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| the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to private acts of discrimination. |
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| The most environmentally destructive type of mining in California's gold rush was |
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| Most of the New South's iron and steel industry was concentrated in |
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| often acted as vigilantes for Anglos in retaliating against Mexican Americans. |
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| Longhorn cattle were introduced in southern Texas by |
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| The U.S. Army encouraged the slaughter of millions of buffalo |
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| in order to weaken the Plains Indians by depriving them of their source of food, clothing, and shelter. |
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| Charles Guiteau is noted as the |
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| paranoid schizophrenic who assassinated James A. Garfield. |
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| All of the following statements regarding homesteading on the Great Plains are not true except |
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| the northern Plains were heavily populated by foreign-born residents. |
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| The Battle of Little Bighorn in which George A. Custer and his men were killed occurred after |
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| whites had entered the sacred Black Hills seeking gold. |
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| he largest and most profitable mines were owned by large mining corporations. |
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| All of the following statements regarding the Chinese in California are true except they |
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| were unable to develop communities owing to a shortage of women. |
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| The Cheyenne at Sand Creek were led by |
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| Southern cotton mills had a competitive advantage over northern mills because of |
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| cheap labor, made up mostly of poor native southern whites. |
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| offered each Indian head of family 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land. |
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| By the 1890s, southern farmers were importing nearly ____ of their food. |
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| Ida Wells was an advocate for |
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| The goal of the Indian schools was |
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| assimilation into American culture. |
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| Most cowboys in the Old West were |
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| laborers who worked for industrial corporations. |
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| In the years following the Civil War the southern agricultural economy |
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| depended on the crop lien system. |
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| The first immigration restriction legislation in the U.S. was directed toward |
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| According to Frederick Jackson Turner, American character and culture were primarily influenced by |
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| the existence of the frontier and the westward movement. |
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| The "Battle" of Wounded Knee |
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| symbolized the death of the Plains Indians' way of life. |
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| By 1890, the Sioux and other reservation Indians |
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| were reduced to lives of poverty, depression, and alcoholism. |
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| All of the following statements regarding race relations during the New South period are true except |
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| lynching and racial violence declined significantly. |
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