A) their savagery in war
B) how Americans relied on an incomplete and overly simplistic understanding of the West
C) the loss of their culture
D) the environmental destruction of their native lands
F) All of the above
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A) Jackson believed that they should be assimilated, while Winnemucca believed they should retain their culture and traditions.
B) Jackson believed they should keep their culture, while Winnemucca believed they should be assimilated.
C) Jackson believed they should learn on their own reservations, while Winnemucca called for their relocation to boarding schools in the East.
D) Jackson believed they should receive formal education in the humanities, while Winnemucca believed they would be more successful with vocational training.
F) None of the above
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A) They implemented limitations on the power and profits made by railroads on interstate trade.
B) They banned the unregulated open-pit mining system that damaged the environment.
C) They illegalized the practice used by mining corporations to integrate their resources with the means and methods of production.
D) They refused to let creditors charge high interest rates for farm loans.
F) B) and D)
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A) The Plains Indians remained in relative isolation up through the early nineteenth century.
B) Horsemanship and buffalo hunts were activities that Plains Indians could do with relatively little skill.
C) Migratory Plains tribes were inferior to the sedentary ones and resorted to hunting buffalo in order to survive.
D) The advantages of the horse and buffalo made migratory tribes the dominant powers on the Great Plains.
F) A) and B)
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A) The reservation lands put up for sale were of higher quality than those set aside for Native American heads of households.
B) The reservation lands sold were at less expensive rates than those sold to Native American heads of households.
C) White buyers had an easier time acquiring titles to former reservation lands than Native Americans did for their legally allotted lands.
D) White buyers were encouraged to farm these lands while Native Americans were discouraged from doing so.
F) None of the above
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A) a sudden spike in the price of wheat
B) rising interest rates for bank loans
C) agricultural competition from foreign nations
D) the dwindling supply of available homesteads
F) A) and C)
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A) conversion to Christianity
B) the introduction of horses and sheep
C) exposure to fatal diseases
D) warfare with the Spanish
F) All of the above
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A) the Sioux attempted to extend their hunting grounds
B) gold was discovered in the Black Hills
C) Red Cloud's War broke out
D) Indian warriors attacked the forces of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer
F) A) and B)
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A) A lack of predators allowed them to spread rapidly and disrupt the ecosystem.
B) Many of the new animal species decimated the native buffalo population.
C) The introduction of cheatgrass from Asia harmed livestock that grazed on it.
D) New water plants choked and poisoned river systems.
F) A) and B)
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A) Railroad companies and entrepreneurs virtually eliminated the buffalo from the Great Plains.
B) The federal government violated treaties declaring Indian lands off limits to white settlement.
C) The defacement of the earth made by farmers and miners was sacrilegious.
D) The encroaching white culture was more civilized than the Sioux culture.
F) A) and D)
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A) Most of the victims were defenseless Cheyenne women and children whose bodies were scalped and mutilated.
B) Federal agents intentionally gave the Cheyenne tribe blankets infected with smallpox, which led to many deaths in a short amount of time.
C) Over 800 Cheyenne men were gunned down while they were hunting buffalo.
D) Colonel John M. Chivington's entire military force was ambushed and killed by Cheyenne warriors.
F) All of the above
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