Question 1

What happened to the Sioux after their victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn?

Accepted Answer

A)  They continued to pose a military threat to American invaders. 
B)  They were hunted down by the American army. 
C)  Sitting Bull led the united Sioux in establishing an independent settlement. 
D)  They begrudgingly accepted the loss of the Black Hills. 
A)  They continued to pose a military threat to American invaders. 
B)  They were hunted down by the American army. 
C)  Sitting Bull led the united Sioux in establishing an independent settlement. 
D)  They begrudgingly accepted the loss of the Black Hills.

Question 2

Of the 2.5 million farms established between 1860 and 1900, homesteading accounted for what proportion?

Accepted Answer

A)  Three-quarters 
B)  Two-thirds 
C)  One-half 
D)  One-fifth 
A)  Three-quarters 
B)  Two-thirds 
C)  One-half 
D)  One-fifth

Question 3

Match the term with the definition.
-1882 law that effectively barred Chinese immigration and set a precedent for further immigration restrictions. Fueled by racial and cultural animosities, the act's passage led to a sharp drop in the Chinese population in America.

Accepted Answer

A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee 
A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee

Question 4

For what reason did hundreds of thousands of Americans migrate to the West in the three decades after 1870?

Accepted Answer

A)  To find work in the steel industry 
B)  To own their own land 
C)  To secure territorial appointments in government 
D)  To earn wages in the expanding agribusinesses 
A)  To find work in the steel industry 
B)  To own their own land 
C)  To secure territorial appointments in government 
D)  To earn wages in the expanding agribusinesses

Question 5

Which of the following characterizes life for women on the western frontier in the late nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  They usually had servants to help them with their household work. 
B)  They worked only within the physical confines of their homes. 
C)  They were forced to work hard to accomplish even the simplest tasks. 
D)  They tended to live quite well while expending little physical effort. 
A)  They usually had servants to help them with their household work. 
B)  They worked only within the physical confines of their homes. 
C)  They were forced to work hard to accomplish even the simplest tasks. 
D)  They tended to live quite well while expending little physical effort.

Question 6

Who among whites protested the conditions on Indian reservations during the 1880s? How did Congress address these problems?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Protestors

Question 7

Which statement describes the U.S. government's Indian policy during the middle of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  The government was more willing than ever to grant Indians the rights enjoyed by whites. 
B)  The government cleared Indian land for white settlement but lived up to most of the promises it made to the Indians. 
C)  The government pushed Indians off their lands and into reservations. 
D)  The government attempted to prevent white settlers from taking more Indian land. 
A)  The government was more willing than ever to grant Indians the rights enjoyed by whites. 
B)  The government cleared Indian land for white settlement but lived up to most of the promises it made to the Indians. 
C)  The government pushed Indians off their lands and into reservations. 
D)  The government attempted to prevent white settlers from taking more Indian land.

Question 8

How and to what extent did the American West reflect the major social, political, and economic trends more typically associated with the industrial Midwest and Northeast in the late nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Expansion

Question 9

According to Map 17.2: Western Mining, 1848-1890, in which state was lead available?

Accepted Answer

A)  California 
B)  Nevada 
C)  Wyoming 
D)  Oregon 
A)  California 
B)  Nevada 
C)  Wyoming 
D)  Oregon

Question 10

Which of the following terms best characterizes Virginia City, Nevada, and other mining centers in the late nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Lawless outposts 
B)  Homogeneous small towns 
C)  Sprawling industrialized communities 
D)  Short-lived settlements 
A)  Lawless outposts 
B)  Homogeneous small towns 
C)  Sprawling industrialized communities 
D)  Short-lived settlements

Question 11

Match the term with the definition.
-Religion founded in 1889 by Paiute shaman Wovoka that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Indian religion and served as a nonviolent form of resistance for Indians in the late nineteenth century. The practice frightened whites and was violently suppressed.

Accepted Answer

A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee 
A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee

Question 12

Between 1870 and 1900, the population of rural America shrank from 80 percent to 66 percent while the agricultural sector of the economy experienced what change?

Accepted Answer

A)  It benefitted from the steady growth of the diversified family farm. 
B)  It suffered from the removal of government subsidies for small farms. 
C)  It grew through mechanization, commercialization, and expanding urban markets. 
D)  It became the primary source of income for laborers in the Northeast. 
A)  It benefitted from the steady growth of the diversified family farm. 
B)  It suffered from the removal of government subsidies for small farms. 
C)  It grew through mechanization, commercialization, and expanding urban markets. 
D)  It became the primary source of income for laborers in the Northeast.

Question 13

Which statement describes life on the Indian reservations?

Accepted Answer

A)  The government allowed Indians to maintain their cultural practices. 
B)  Poverty and starvation stalked Indian reservations. 
C)  The government assaulted Indian culture but did give Indians sufficient rations. 
D)  Indians were able to establish their own independent governments. 
A)  The government allowed Indians to maintain their cultural practices. 
B)  Poverty and starvation stalked Indian reservations. 
C)  The government assaulted Indian culture but did give Indians sufficient rations. 
D)  Indians were able to establish their own independent governments.

Question 14

Match the term with the definition.
-Indian empire based on trade in horses, hides, guns, and captives that stretched from the Canadian plains to Mexico in the eighteenth century. By 1865, fewer than five thousand Comanches lived in the empire, which ranged from west Texas north to Oklahoma.

Accepted Answer

A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee 
A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee

Question 15

By the 1870s, homesteaders discovered that most of the prime land in the West was

Accepted Answer

A)  already set aside for protection by the federal government. 
B)  held by Native Americans, who refused to relinquish it. 
C)  already ruined by industrial enterprises seeking mineral wealth. 
D)  already in the hands of speculators. 
A)  already set aside for protection by the federal government. 
B)  held by Native Americans, who refused to relinquish it. 
C)  already ruined by industrial enterprises seeking mineral wealth. 
D)  already in the hands of speculators.

Question 16

Match the term with the definition.
-Land given by the federal government to American Indians beginning in the 1860s in an attempt to reduce tensions between Indians and western settlers. On these lands, Indians subsisted on meager government rations and faced a life of poverty and starvation.

Accepted Answer

A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee 
A) Battle of the Little Big Horn 
B) Black Hills 
C) Carlisle Indian School 
D) Chinese Exclusion Act 
E) Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee

Question 17

What did historian Frederick Jackson Turner argue about the importance of the western frontier in American history in 1893?

Accepted Answer

A)  It made the United States different from Europe. 
B)  It provided a focus for American imperialism. 
C)  It promoted conflict between the North and the South. 
D)  It disproved Buffalo Bill's version of American history. 
A)  It made the United States different from Europe. 
B)  It provided a focus for American imperialism. 
C)  It promoted conflict between the North and the South. 
D)  It disproved Buffalo Bill's version of American history.

Question 18

What did settlers passing through the western portion of Kansas and Nebraska and the eastern portion of Colorado in the years after 1870 call the area?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Comstock Lode 
B)  Homestead Act Lands 
C)  The Great American Desert 
D)  The Near West Plains 
A)  The Comstock Lode 
B)  Homestead Act Lands 
C)  The Great American Desert 
D)  The Near West Plains

Question 19

What occurred after Geronimo surrendered to General Miles in 1886?

Accepted Answer

A)  The U.S. government resettled the Apaches in Mexico. 
B)  The Apache warriors were tried as war criminals and executed. 
C)  The Apaches were allowed to remain on their ancestral land in the Southwest. 
D)  The government sent nearly five hundred Apaches to prisons in the South. 
A)  The U.S. government resettled the Apaches in Mexico. 
B)  The Apache warriors were tried as war criminals and executed. 
C)  The Apaches were allowed to remain on their ancestral land in the Southwest. 
D)  The government sent nearly five hundred Apaches to prisons in the South.

Question 20

Which group or groups composed the population of the area from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean during the last decades of the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Native-born whites 
B)  African Americans fleeing the oppression of the South 
C)  People from various parts of Europe, Asia, and the Americas 
D)  Waves of Mexican refugees 
A)  Native-born whites 
B)  African Americans fleeing the oppression of the South 
C)  People from various parts of Europe, Asia, and the Americas 
D)  Waves of Mexican refugees

Exam 17: The Contested West

What happened to the Sioux after their victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn?

Of the 2.5 million farms established between 1860 and 1900, homesteading accounted for what proportion?

Match the term with the definition. -1882 law that effectively barred Chinese immigration and set a precedent for further immigration restrictions. Fueled by racial and cultural animosities, the act's passage led to a sharp drop in the Chinese population in America.

For what reason did hundreds of thousands of Americans migrate to the West in the three decades after 1870?

Which of the following characterizes life for women on the western frontier in the late nineteenth century?

Who among whites protested the conditions on Indian reservations during the 1880s? How did Congress address these problems?

Which statement describes the U.S. government's Indian policy during the middle of the nineteenth century?

How and to what extent did the American West reflect the major social, political, and economic trends more typically associated with the industrial Midwest and Northeast in the late nineteenth century?

According to Map 17.2: Western Mining, 1848-1890, in which state was lead available?

Which of the following terms best characterizes Virginia City, Nevada, and other mining centers in the late nineteenth century?

Between 1870 and 1900, the population of rural America shrank from 80 percent to 66 percent while the agricultural sector of the economy experienced what change?

Which statement describes life on the Indian reservations?

Match the term with the definition. -Indian empire based on trade in horses, hides, guns, and captives that stretched from the Canadian plains to Mexico in the eighteenth century. By 1865, fewer than five thousand Comanches lived in the empire, which ranged from west Texas north to Oklahoma.

By the 1870s, homesteaders discovered that most of the prime land in the West was

Match the term with the definition. -Land given by the federal government to American Indians beginning in the 1860s in an attempt to reduce tensions between Indians and western settlers. On these lands, Indians subsisted on meager government rations and faced a life of poverty and starvation.

What did historian Frederick Jackson Turner argue about the importance of the western frontier in American history in 1893?

What did settlers passing through the western portion of Kansas and Nebraska and the eastern portion of Colorado in the years after 1870 call the area?

What occurred after Geronimo surrendered to General Miles in 1886?

Which group or groups composed the population of the area from the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean during the last decades of the nineteenth century?

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