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Quiz three
Quiz number three multiple-choice
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Undergraduate 1
12/12/2012

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Which of the following statements best describe the myth of the West(quiz Three)
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Independent Anglo men defeated hostile peoples and environments
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Pull factor in American Indian migration to the Great Plains was(quiz Three)
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The opportunity to exploit a resource, the Buffalo.
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Some plains Indian communities grew wealthy in the 19th century in part because(quiz Three)
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They were positioned to trade with communities that wanted buffalo hides and meat
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The transition to life on the plains(quiz Three)
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Led to a loss of status for women as a control over a central mode of production meant less for the Indian economy.
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The increase of wealth in Plains communities(quiz Three)
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Creating tensions as individual grew in status and wealth and societies that emphasized communal behavior
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the crisis on the planes in 1840s resulted in part from(quiz Three)
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A severe drought that affected the Buffalo population
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The Indians lost the plains wars because(quiz Three)
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Of their resource food base was disappearing
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Reformers criticized the reservation system in part because(quiz Three)
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Reservation promoted corruption
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With regard to Indian culture, reformers argued that(quiz Three)
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These culture should be destroyed because they trapped Indians in poverty and kept them isolated
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Reformers call for the allotment of Indian reservation lands because they hoped it would hasten(quiz Three)
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The assimilation of American Indians into the mainstream society.
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The primary pull that drew United States citizens to the Great Plains was(quiz Three)
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The lure of owning one's farm
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Settlers in the West were typically(quiz Three)
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Middle-class Americans
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The Homestead act of 1862(quiz Three)
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Provided settlers in the West with land at virtually no cost
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From an economic perspective, the cattle drives pointed to(quiz Three)
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The integration or inclusion of the West into the national economy.
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"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state where in they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."(quiz Three)
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Fourteenth amendment
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The development of mining in the West is marketed by two phases, the transition from the first phases, placer mining, to the second phase, that of
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Capital intensive efforts such as'tunnel'mining
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