What did the historian Frederick Jackson Turner argue about the importance of the western frontier in American history in 1893? a. The western frontier made the United States different from Europe. Correct
Why did the U.S. government decide to move Indians to reservations around the mid nineteenth century?
c. The government's policy of pushing the Indians further west to make way for white settlement no longer worked because there was no land left to push the Indians further west. Correct
Why did the Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which ceded some of their land to allow passage of wagon trains?
d. They hoped to preserve their culture and way of life in the face of white settlement of the West. Correct
What was the Comstock Load? b. The richest vein of silver ore found on the North American continent. Correct
Which is the largest ethnic group in the western mining district of the U. S. in the late nineteenth century? a. Chinese Correct
The Chinese men were hard workers but anti-Chinese prejudice barred them from work in which jobs? b. Mining jobs Correct
What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? c. To limit and decrease the number of Chinese immigrants to the United States. Correct
Which two factors helped stimulate the land rush in the trans-Mississippi West? c. The Homestead Act of 1862 and he building of the transcontinental from the Mississippi River to the California coast. Correct
What did the Homestead Act of 1862 promise to people who settled in the trans Mississippi West?
b. 160 acres of free land to anyone who settled in the trans Mississippi West and stayed for five years. Correct
What did the federal government do to encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War? a. They gave away huge tracts of land to railroad companies to encourage railroad construction. Correct