Interactive Map – Chapter 16: Forging Transcontinental Nation, 1877-1900

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. Which development in the history of the West during the period from 1877 to 1900 most dramatically demonstrats the environmental impact of settlement?

Government-sponsored surveys that mapped the West correct incorrect

The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad correct incorrect

The near extinction of the buffalo correct incorrect

The adoption of ranching practices from both Mexico and the Ohio Valley correct incorrect

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. What powerful manifestation of the idea of "American exceptionalism" was formed during this period?

The Monroe Doctrine correct incorrect

The Ghost Dance correct incorrect

The Myth of the West correct incorrect

Social Darwinism correct incorrect

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. The important role of Chinese laborers and Mexican migrant workers in the economy of the late-nineteenth century West shows that the workforce was:

Multicultural and enslaved correct incorrect

exploited and underpaid correct incorrect

multicultural, mobile, and linked to world markets correct incorrect

rapidly unionizing correct incorrect

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