True or False Chapter 16 Self-Quiz 2

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. Despite the census proclamation of 1890, significant portions of the West remained virtually empty well into the 20th century.

. Indian and European women struggled with the vagaries of the environment in the American West in the same ways.

. Between the 1840s and the 1870s, Chinese emigrated not only to the United States but also to Peru, Cuba, and Australia.

. Homesteading west of the Mississippi River had been fairly easy for individual families even before the Homestead Act of 1862.

. During one of Buffalo Bill's shows in Europe, Annie Oakley shot a cigarette out of the mouth of a young Kaiser Wilhelm, Germany's emperor during World War I.

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While western mining camps, like those of the California gold rush, were ethnically diverse, the men agreed on one mutual language: English.

. Farmers in western territories could count on massive harvests regularly throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

. The best-known character of western mythology, the cowboy, emerged in the late 18th century and remained a central feature in the western economy well into the 1950s.

. It was a coalition of Christian leaders who successfully urged President Grant to pursue a peace policy with Native American tribes in the West.

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