Between 1865 and 1900, immigrants to the United States who settled on the Great Plains:
A) came primarily to make their fortunes and return to their native countries.
B) came largely from Germany, the British Isles, and Canada.
C) came from Mexico and Latin America.
D) usually migrated as single males.
E) came chiefly from the Soviet Union.
Answer: B
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APUSH Chapter 17
- Between 1860 and 1900, farmers:
- By the mid-1880's, cattle raising in the American West:
- In the 1880s and 1890s, an organization that attempted to aid farmers by promoting cooperative efforts was the:
- California in the late 19th century has been referred to as the cornucopia on the Pacific. Cornucopia means:
- The Southern Farmers' Alliance:
- When California entered the Union in 1850, land speculators bought up much of the land from:
- All of the following characterized western mining EXCEPT:
- By 1890, under the leadership of the New South advocates, the South:
- The authors characterize the late nineteenth century as "the nadir of black life." Nadir means the:
- In the Ocala platform, the National Farmers' Alliance advocated:
- In its attempt to regulate railroad rates during the late nineteenth century, the Interstate Commerce Commission:
- An organization which represented an early attempt by farmers to confront their problems during the 1860s and 1870s was the:
- The Supreme Court upheld the principle that state governments could regulate railroad and grain elevator companies with its decision in:
- One of the primary goals of farmer movements during the late nineteenth century was:
- In the period from 1865 to 1900, southern factory workers:
- In the late nineteenth century, southern agriculture:
- During the late nineteenth century, the Supreme Court:
- According to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision:
- Between 1865 and 1900, black workers in the South:
- Chief leader of the moderate approach to achieving black rights within American society was:
- In the period after the Civil War, southern industrial progress:
- The philosophy of the New South advocates stressed:
- Those Indians who followed the Ghost Dance movement believed that:
- The federal government's Indian policy between 1876 and 1900 was characterized by:
- The Dawes Act was designed to: