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What was the US policy toward the Indians?
a) Submit or die
b) Move to Reservations
c) Extermination
d) General appeasement

What is the best example of the US government attempting to mandate the assimilation of the American Indians?
a) Fort Laramie Treaty (1851)
b) Homestead Act (1862)
c) Creation of the Oklahoma Indian Territory
d) Dawes Act (1887)

What culture had the most influence on the American Cowboy?
a) English
b) American Indian
c) Spanish/Mexican
d) American Industrial

What government action helped populate the West?
a) Fort Laramie Treaty (1851)
b) Homestead Act (1862)
c) Creation of the Oklahoma Indian Territory
d) Dawes Act (1887)

How did barbed-wire impact ranching?
a) Kept cattle separated preventing rustling
b) Protected water rights
c) Protected farms, stopping open range grazing
d) Provided a visual cue to land boundaries

How did farmers create their own debt problems?
a) Use of Cooperatives
b) Demand for “hard currency”
c) Allowed business monopolies
d) Overproduction of certain crops

How did farmers combat big business practices?
a) Use of Cooperatives
b) Demand for “hard currency”
c) Allowing business monopolies
d) Overproduction of certain crops

Why did Populists want gold and silver used to back currency?
a) Would increase the amount of money in circulation
b) Leads to deflation of money
c) Supported creditors
d) Farmers wanted to prevent inflation

What was the public response to Government support to business by breaking strikes?
a) Increased the radical labor unions
b) Increased sympathy for labor
c) Decrease in support for labor unions
d) Change in government

What did the Election of 1896 symbolize?
a) American support for the farmer
b) Loss of status for the American farmer and their influence in politics
c) A change in the ability of big business to influence politics
d) The strength of rural values over middle class values

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