1. How confident are you that you understand the main point of “Mining in the West”? Are you very confident, confident, somewhat confident, or not at all confident?
2. What do you think is the main point or historical argument the author makes in this section?
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3. Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author use to support her argument that the promise of gold and silver motivated the U.S. government’s efforts to take control of the West?
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4. What evidence does the author cite to illustrate her argument that western mining towns resembled the large industrial cities of the East?
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5. Which of the following pieces of evidence does the author cite to validate her claim that corporate interests dominated the American West’s economy in the late nineteenth century?
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6. What evidence does the author present to support her argument that anti-immigrant nativism plagued western cities as well as eastern ones in the last decades of the 1800s?
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7. Are you convinced of the author’s argument that mining motivated Americans’ pursuit of domination in the West and generated diversified businesses and cities that resembled those of the East more than they conformed to the image of the "Wild West"? Would you answer "yes," "not sure," or "no"?
8. If your response to the preceding question was “yes,” please explain why. If you responded “no” or “not sure,” what would convince you? What evidence would you need to see to be convinced that mining motivated Americans’ pursuit of domination in the West and generated diversified businesses and cities that resembled those of the East more than they conformed to the image of the "Wild West"?
9. What did you wonder about when you read this section? What more do you want to know?