Chapter 17 US History

Seward's folly proved to be a bargain.

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• False

Few Indian chiefs had the power to bind all their people to a treaty.

• True

• False

The Homestead Act caused farmers to protest angrily.

• True

• False

The reservations on which the American government tended to place Indians were arid, barren lands.

• True

• False

Most of the Plains Indians made their living by farming.

• True

• False

 Promontory Point, Utah united the Union and Central Pacific railroads.

• True

• False

Pikes Peak gold rush helped to settle Nevada.

• True

• False

Open range cattle ended in the 1880s because of overgrazing, cold winters, and railroads.

• True

• False

Sod houses were houses made of a special type of tree that grows in the Great Plains

• True

• False

The Pinkertons developed the first Most Wanted file.

• True

• False