Question 1

What caused hardships for wheat farmers on the Great Plains in the 1880s?

Accepted Answer

A)  a sudden spike in the price of wheat 
B)  rising interest rates for bank loans 
C)  agricultural competition from foreign nations 
D)  the dwindling supply of available homesteads 
A)  a sudden spike in the price of wheat 
B)  rising interest rates for bank loans 
C)  agricultural competition from foreign nations 
D)  the dwindling supply of available homesteads

Question 2

What made the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado so atrocious?

Accepted Answer

A)  Most of the victims were defenseless Cheyenne women and children whose bodies were scalped and mutilated. 
B)  Federal agents intentionally gave the Cheyenne tribe blankets infected with smallpox, which led to many deaths in a short amount of time. 
C)  Over 800 Cheyenne men were gunned down while they were hunting buffalo. 
D)  Colonel John M. Chivington's entire military force was ambushed and killed by Cheyenne warriors. 
A)  Most of the victims were defenseless Cheyenne women and children whose bodies were scalped and mutilated. 
B)  Federal agents intentionally gave the Cheyenne tribe blankets infected with smallpox, which led to many deaths in a short amount of time. 
C)  Over 800 Cheyenne men were gunned down while they were hunting buffalo. 
D)  Colonel John M. Chivington's entire military force was ambushed and killed by Cheyenne warriors.

Question 3

How did the introduction of foreign plants and animals alter the Western environment?

Accepted Answer

A)  A lack of predators allowed them to spread rapidly and disrupt the ecosystem. 
B)  Many of the new animal species decimated the native buffalo population. 
C)  The introduction of cheatgrass from Asia harmed livestock that grazed on it. 
D)  New water plants choked and poisoned river systems. 
A)  A lack of predators allowed them to spread rapidly and disrupt the ecosystem. 
B)  Many of the new animal species decimated the native buffalo population. 
C)  The introduction of cheatgrass from Asia harmed livestock that grazed on it. 
D)  New water plants choked and poisoned river systems.

Question 4

The second Fort Laramie Treaty was violated when .

Accepted Answer

A)  the Sioux attempted to extend their hunting grounds 
B)  gold was discovered in the Black Hills 
C)  Red Cloud's War broke out 
D)  Indian warriors attacked the forces of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer 
A)  the Sioux attempted to extend their hunting grounds 
B)  gold was discovered in the Black Hills 
C)  Red Cloud's War broke out 
D)  Indian warriors attacked the forces of Lieutenant Colonel George Custer

Question 5

-What did artist George Catlin imply about the Plains Indians through his 1844 painting Buffalo Chase over Prairie Bluffs?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Plains Indians remained in relative isolation up through the early nineteenth century. 
B)  Horsemanship and buffalo hunts were activities that Plains Indians could do with relatively little skill. 
C)  Migratory Plains tribes were inferior to the sedentary ones and resorted to hunting buffalo in order to survive. 
D)  The advantages of the horse and buffalo made migratory tribes the dominant powers on the Great Plains. 
A)  The Plains Indians remained in relative isolation up through the early nineteenth century. 
B)  Horsemanship and buffalo hunts were activities that Plains Indians could do with relatively little skill. 
C)  Migratory Plains tribes were inferior to the sedentary ones and resorted to hunting buffalo in order to survive. 
D)  The advantages of the horse and buffalo made migratory tribes the dominant powers on the Great Plains.

Question 6

What did Sitting Bull mean when he stated in his 1877 speech at the Powder River Council that "…we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they [whites] threaten to take that from us also…"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Railroad companies and entrepreneurs virtually eliminated the buffalo from the Great Plains. 
B)  The federal government violated treaties declaring Indian lands off limits to white settlement. 
C)  The defacement of the earth made by farmers and miners was sacrilegious. 
D)  The encroaching white culture was more civilized than the Sioux culture. 
A)  Railroad companies and entrepreneurs virtually eliminated the buffalo from the Great Plains. 
B)  The federal government violated treaties declaring Indian lands off limits to white settlement. 
C)  The defacement of the earth made by farmers and miners was sacrilegious. 
D)  The encroaching white culture was more civilized than the Sioux culture.

Question 7

How did the Supreme Court 1876 cases of Munn v. Illinois and Peik v. Chicago and Northwestern Railway affect the economic development of the West?

Accepted Answer

A)  They implemented limitations on the power and profits made by railroads on interstate trade. 
B)  They banned the unregulated open-pit mining system that damaged the environment. 
C)  They illegalized the practice used by mining corporations to integrate their resources with the means and methods of production. 
D)  They refused to let creditors charge high interest rates for farm loans. 
A)  They implemented limitations on the power and profits made by railroads on interstate trade. 
B)  They banned the unregulated open-pit mining system that damaged the environment. 
C)  They illegalized the practice used by mining corporations to integrate their resources with the means and methods of production. 
D)  They refused to let creditors charge high interest rates for farm loans.

Question 8

What factor made the Navajo more migratory after initial contact with the Spanish?

Accepted Answer

A)  conversion to Christianity 
B)  the introduction of horses and sheep 
C)  exposure to fatal diseases 
D)  warfare with the Spanish 
A)  conversion to Christianity 
B)  the introduction of horses and sheep 
C)  exposure to fatal diseases 
D)  warfare with the Spanish

Question 9

Although both Helen Hunt Jackson and Sarah Winnemucca were proponents of education for Native American children, how did their views differ?

Accepted Answer

A)  Jackson believed that they should be assimilated, while Winnemucca believed they should retain their culture and traditions. 
B)  Jackson believed they should keep their culture, while Winnemucca believed they should be assimilated. 
C)  Jackson believed they should learn on their own reservations, while Winnemucca called for their relocation to boarding schools in the East. 
D)  Jackson believed they should receive formal education in the humanities, while Winnemucca believed they would be more successful with vocational training. 
A)  Jackson believed that they should be assimilated, while Winnemucca believed they should retain their culture and traditions. 
B)  Jackson believed they should keep their culture, while Winnemucca believed they should be assimilated. 
C)  Jackson believed they should learn on their own reservations, while Winnemucca called for their relocation to boarding schools in the East. 
D)  Jackson believed they should receive formal education in the humanities, while Winnemucca believed they would be more successful with vocational training.

Question 10

-This 2003 monument commemorating the Native Americans who fell at the Battle of Little Bighorn celebrates the unity of the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors even as it symbolically portrays .

Accepted Answer

A)  their savagery in war 
B)  how Americans relied on an incomplete and overly simplistic understanding of the West 
C)  the loss of their culture 
D)  the environmental destruction of their native lands 
A)  their savagery in war 
B)  how Americans relied on an incomplete and overly simplistic understanding of the West 
C)  the loss of their culture 
D)  the environmental destruction of their native lands

Question 11

-How did this 1911 advertisement for the sale of Indian reservation lands reflect the hypocrisy and flaws of the Dawes Severalty Act?

Accepted Answer

A)  The reservation lands put up for sale were of higher quality than those set aside for Native American heads of households. 
B)  The reservation lands sold were at less expensive rates than those sold to Native American heads of households. 
C)  White buyers had an easier time acquiring titles to former reservation lands than Native Americans did for their legally allotted lands. 
D)  White buyers were encouraged to farm these lands while Native Americans were discouraged from doing so. 
A)  The reservation lands put up for sale were of higher quality than those set aside for Native American heads of households. 
B)  The reservation lands sold were at less expensive rates than those sold to Native American heads of households. 
C)  White buyers had an easier time acquiring titles to former reservation lands than Native Americans did for their legally allotted lands. 
D)  White buyers were encouraged to farm these lands while Native Americans were discouraged from doing so.

What caused hardships for wheat farmers on the Great Plains in the 1880s?

What made the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado so atrocious?

How did the introduction of foreign plants and animals alter the Western environment?

The second Fort Laramie Treaty was violated when .

-What did artist George Catlin imply about the Plains Indians through his 1844 painting Buffalo Chase over Prairie Bluffs?

What did Sitting Bull mean when he stated in his 1877 speech at the Powder River Council that "…we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they [whites] threaten to take that from us also…"?

How did the Supreme Court 1876 cases of Munn v. Illinois and Peik v. Chicago and Northwestern Railway affect the economic development of the West?

What factor made the Navajo more migratory after initial contact with the Spanish?

Although both Helen Hunt Jackson and Sarah Winnemucca were proponents of education for Native American children, how did their views differ?

-This 2003 monument commemorating the Native Americans who fell at the Battle of Little Bighorn celebrates the unity of the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors even as it symbolically portrays .

-How did this 1911 advertisement for the sale of Indian reservation lands reflect the hypocrisy and flaws of the Dawes Severalty Act?

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Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1710

Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710-176

Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764-1783

A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government, 1783-1789

The New Republic: an Age of Political Passion, 1789-1800

Jeffersonian America: an Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800-1824

Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820-1840

Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848

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Slavery and Sectionalism: the Political Crisis of 1848-1861

A Nation Torn Apart: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890

Wonder and Woe: the Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900

Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877-1900

Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895-1915

Imperial America: the United States in the World, 1890-1914

The Great War: World War I, 1914-1918

A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties

A New Deal for America: the Great Depression, 1929-1940

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In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945-1960

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Exam 15: Conflict and Conquest: the Transformation of the West, 1860-1900

What caused hardships for wheat farmers on the Great Plains in the 1880s?

What made the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado so atrocious?

How did the introduction of foreign plants and animals alter the Western environment?

The second Fort Laramie Treaty was violated when .

-What did artist George Catlin imply about the Plains Indians through his 1844 painting Buffalo Chase over Prairie Bluffs?

What did Sitting Bull mean when he stated in his 1877 speech at the Powder River Council that "…we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they [whites] threaten to take that from us also…"?

How did the Supreme Court 1876 cases of Munn v. Illinois and Peik v. Chicago and Northwestern Railway affect the economic development of the West?

What factor made the Navajo more migratory after initial contact with the Spanish?

Although both Helen Hunt Jackson and Sarah Winnemucca were proponents of education for Native American children, how did their views differ?

-This 2003 monument commemorating the Native Americans who fell at the Battle of Little Bighorn celebrates the unity of the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors even as it symbolically portrays .

-How did this 1911 advertisement for the sale of Indian reservation lands reflect the hypocrisy and flaws of the Dawes Severalty Act?

People in Motion: The Atlantic World to 1590

Models of Settlement: English Colonial Societies, 1590-1710

Growth, Slavery, and Conflict: Colonial America, 1710-176

Revolutionary America: Change and Transformation, 1764-1783

A Virtuous Republic: Creating a Workable Government, 1783-1789

The New Republic: an Age of Political Passion, 1789-1800

Jeffersonian America: an Expanding Empire of Liberty, 1800-1824

Democrats and Whigs: Democracy and American Culture, 1820-1840

Workers, Farmers, and Slaves: The Transformation of the American Economy, 1815-1848

Revivalism, Reform and Artistic Renaissance, 1820-1850

To Overspread the Continent: Westward Expansion and Political Conflict, 1840-1848

Slavery and Sectionalism: the Political Crisis of 1848-1861

A Nation Torn Apart: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Now That We Are Free: Reconstruction and the New South, 1863-1890

Wonder and Woe: the Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900

Becoming a Modern Society: America in the Gilded Age, 1877-1900

Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895-1915

Imperial America: the United States in the World, 1890-1914

The Great War: World War I, 1914-1918

A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties

A New Deal for America: the Great Depression, 1929-1940

World War II: Fighting the Good War, 1939-1945

A Divided World: The Early Cold War, 1945-1963

In a Land of Plenty: Contentment and Discord, 1945-1960

A Nation Divided: The Vietnam War, 1945-1975

A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the 1960s

Righting a Nation Adrift: America in the 1970s and 1980s

Building a New World Order: The United States, 1989-2015

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