Chapter 16 - The Conquest of the Far West

Poor ventilation

________ meant large accumulations of poisonous carbon dioxide, which caused dizziness, nausea, and headaches.

Womens roles

________ were largely domestic and artistic: raising children, cooking, gathering roots and berries, preparing hides, and creating many of the impressive artworks of tribal culture.

America

The cowboy had become perhaps the most widely admired popular hero in ________ and a powerful and enduring symbol of the important American ideal of the "natural man ..

Homestead Act

The ________ of 1862 permitted settlers to buy plots of 160 acres for a small fee if they occupied the land they purchased for five years and improved it.

Chinese

The ________ usually occupied the lower rungs of the employment ladder, working as common laborers, servants, and unskilled factory hands.

New Mexico

In ________, the centers of Spanish speaking society were the farming and trading communities the Spanish had established in the seventeenth century.

Plains Indians

The buffalo, or bison, provided the economic basis for the ________ way of life.

Utah

In ________, the Mormons granted women suffrage in an effort to stave off criticism of their practice of polygamy.

California

In ________, Spanish settlement began in the eighteenth century with a string of Christian missions along the Pacific coast.

Homestead Act

The ________ was intended as a progressive measure.