In the latter half of the nineteenth century, where did the federal government attempt to confine all Plains Indian tribes?
A) Texas and Arizona
B) California and Oregon
C) Nebraska and Kansas
D) Utah and Montana
E) Oklahoma and South Dakota
Question 2
Which of the following statements concerning the first transcontinental railroad is true?
A) It was financed entirely by private capital, with no government subsidy.
B) It was built primarily with forced labor of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Comanche prisoners of war and black slaves.
C) It was completed in 1869 with the joining of the Union Pacific and Central tracks in Utah.
D) It was a patchwork of short state railroads, built with little thought to transcontinental connections.
E) It was chartered originally by the Confederacy in its hopes to take over the West and then continued by the Union after the South's defeat.
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