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Proponents of the New South believed that the South should
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Industrialize
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Why did tenant farmers have no incentive to take care of the farmland that they were on?:
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It was not their land
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Methods used to reduce the black vote stripped many poor whites ot the vote as well: (true or false)
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True
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The Mississippi plan of disenfranchisement included all the following except a:
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Provision disqualifying anyone that owned less than $300 in personal property.
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Six states were created from the western territories in the years 1889-1890. These states were not admitted before 1889 because:
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Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily republican.
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Following the 1867 “Report on the condition of the Indian Tribes, “Congress decided that the best way to end the Indian Wars was:
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To persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations
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The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination in the Battle of Little Bighorn was the:
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Sioux
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A prolonged drought on the plains played a significant role in the buffalo’s disappearance.: ( True or False)
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True
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In 1877, President Rutherford Hayes addressed the American approach to dealing with Native Americans saying:
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“Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part”.
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Which of the following statements about the cowboys’ frontier is NOT true?:
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With two or three noble exceptions, blacks were not allowed to be cowboys.
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The great boom in the range-cattle trade did not last long because cattle drives were economically unsound. ( True or False)
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True
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Cattle Drives:
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Were largely over by 1886 due to the invention of refrigerated rail cars.
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Much of the development of the western plains has been shaped by its:
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Aridity
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All of the following is true of the Homestead Act of 1862 except:
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It allowed cattle ranchers to gain title to federal land simply by staking out a claim and keeping cattle on it for five years.
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This export crop spurred growth in agriculture in the late nineteenth century:
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Wheat
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