check Your Understanding- Chapter 26 Flashcards
The mining frontier played a vital role in
attracting the first substantial white population to the West.
The wild frontier towns where the three major cattle trails from Texas ended were
Abilene, Kansas; Ogalalla, Nebraska; and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Homestead Act
allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land (a quarter-section) by living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30.
Utah was finally admitted to the Union in 1896 after
the Mormon Church formally banned polygamy in 1890.
The closing of the frontier is dated to 1890 because
in that year, the census bureau declared that there was no longer a discernible line of advancing pioneer settlement.
The real “safety valve” provided by the late nineteenth century West was in
western cities like Denver and San Francisco.
All of the following were effects of mechanization of farm labor except
the bonanza farms never attained the status of a factory.
The deepest economic problems faced by most western farmers in the late nineteenth century were
deflation and lower prices for their products.
The least organized—and therefore most exploited—sector of the late nineteenth century economy consisted of
farmers.
The first major national organization to support farmers and promote their interests was
the National Grange (Patrons of Husbandry).
The Farmers’ Alliance was especially weakened by
its inability to overcome racial divisions in the South.
The 1894 Pullman strike was ended by
sending in federal troops to crush it.
