HIST 173: Midterm 1 (MULTIPLE
CHOICE) Questions And Answers
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Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
"Kill the Indian, and save the man... It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an
inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like the rest of us...Transfer the savage-born infant to the
surroundings of civilization, and he will grow to possess a civilized language and habit." ANS✔✔
Richard Pratt, 1892
What had turned many of the Plains Native Americans towards a more nomadic existence in the
1840s? ANS✔✔ Their mobility and skills are horseback hunters created larger buffalo-hunting
grounds
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
"All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of
all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it." ANS✔✔ Chief Joseph, 1879
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
"I had just reached the point where I said that the women were killed. We heard, besides the killing
of the men, of the onslaught also made upon the women and children, and they were treated as
roughly and indiscriminately as the men and boys were." ANS✔✔ Lakota Account of Wounded
Knee, 1890
What statement is true about Native American tribes in the trans-Mississippi West? ANS✔✔ The
gap between rich and poor was generally small
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What was the difference between the racial labor identities of CA and Texas? ANS✔✔ CA had
Asian Americans, where Texas did not
What important insight did the census of 1890s provide Americans? ANS✔✔ The frontier no
longer really existed
Which of the following were the largest landholders in the West by the end of the 19th century?
ANS✔✔ Railroads
William Gilpin's vision for the West stressed______, while John Wesley Powell argued_______.
ANS✔✔ That rain would come when the plains were plowed and planted; that water should be
controlled by the community as a valued resource
By 1887 Congress had become so alarmed at foreign ownership of western land that it enacted the
ANS✔✔ Alien Land Law
The earlier federal Indian policy of "concentration" (deemed a failure by the 1880s) sought to
ANS✔✔ Limit the hunting grounds of many tribes
What were "bonanza farms"? ANS✔✔ Farms of one thousand acres or more
Who did NOT help popularize notions of the mythic west? ANS✔✔ Chief Joseph
Who was most notable for shaping perceptions of the West and linking it to the wider world?
ANS✔✔ William F. Cody
Labor in the construction of the CA section of the transcontinental railroad was supplied by
ANS✔✔ Chinese workers
Which of the largest single group of workers on the Central Pacific in the transcontinental railroad
construction? ANS✔✔ Chinese
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