Question 1

Bonanza farms were huge corporation-controlled farms in the plains in the early 1880s.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The "conquest of the frontier" was

Accepted Answer

A)  mythical because Americans were always finding new frontiers. 
B)  by and large invisible to Americans of the day and never really captured the imagination of Americans. 
C)  a way to evade the destructive consequences of national policies by making them seem to be an expression of human progress. 
D)  one of the most brutal examples of imperialism in world history. 
A)  mythical because Americans were always finding new frontiers. 
B)  by and large invisible to Americans of the day and never really captured the imagination of Americans. 
C)  a way to evade the destructive consequences of national policies by making them seem to be an expression of human progress. 
D)  one of the most brutal examples of imperialism in world history.

Question 3

Which of the following statements about immigrants in the West in the late 1800s is false?

Accepted Answer

A)  Nearly one-third of all Californians were foreign-born. 
B)  Many Chinese came to the U.S. to serve as cheap labor on the railroads. 
C)  There were large populations of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Southwest. 
D)  Although a few did live in the West, Irish and German immigrants almost exclusively immigrated to Eastern states. 
A)  Nearly one-third of all Californians were foreign-born. 
B)  Many Chinese came to the U.S. to serve as cheap labor on the railroads. 
C)  There were large populations of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Southwest. 
D)  Although a few did live in the West, Irish and German immigrants almost exclusively immigrated to Eastern states.

Question 4

The only transcontinental railroad built without land grants was the

Accepted Answer

A)  Southern Pacific. 
B)  Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe. 
C)  Union Pacific. 
D)  Great Northern. 
A)  Southern Pacific. 
B)  Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe. 
C)  Union Pacific. 
D)  Great Northern.

Question 5

General George Custer's greatest mistake at Little Bighorn was grossly underestimating the number of Native Americans.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 set the pattern for government land grants by giving the builders of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads

Accepted Answer

A)  five square miles of public land on each side of their right-of-way for every mile of track laid. 
B)  a ten-year exemption from state taxes. 
C)  a twenty-year exemption from government regulation. 
D)  the right to import an unlimited supply of Chinese labor. 
A)  five square miles of public land on each side of their right-of-way for every mile of track laid. 
B)  a ten-year exemption from state taxes. 
C)  a twenty-year exemption from government regulation. 
D)  the right to import an unlimited supply of Chinese labor.

Question 7

_______ were/was essential to the culture, religion, and sustenance of the Plains Indians.

Accepted Answer

A)  Maize 
B)  Hemp 
C)  Bison 
D)  Cattle 
A)  Maize 
B)  Hemp 
C)  Bison 
D)  Cattle

Question 8

What is the definition of the following key term:
-Comstock Lode :

Accepted Answer

The first major vein of silver

Question 9

Probably the most famous of all the precious metal strikes in the West, the site of the Comstock Lode and the Big Bonanza, was

Accepted Answer

A)  Virginia City, Nevada. 
B)  Deadwood, South Dakota. 
C)  Pike's Peak, Colorado. 
D)  Butte, Montana. 
A)  Virginia City, Nevada. 
B)  Deadwood, South Dakota. 
C)  Pike's Peak, Colorado. 
D)  Butte, Montana.

Question 10

Transcontinental railroads used their zone of "indemnity" lands to prevent

Accepted Answer

A)  military confiscation of lands for forts. 
B)  state taxation of railroad property. 
C)  sale of federal land along the right-of-way. 
D)  homesteading along the railroad. 
A)  military confiscation of lands for forts. 
B)  state taxation of railroad property. 
C)  sale of federal land along the right-of-way. 
D)  homesteading along the railroad.

Question 11

The two reasons why fighting on the Plains slackened after Custer's 1876 defeat are

Accepted Answer

A)  epidemic diseases and malnutrition among the tribes. 
B)  the increased settlement by homesteaders and the formation of territorial governments. 
C)  the tribes who defeated Custer either fled to Canada or accepted reservation life. 
D)  the building of the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo. 
A)  epidemic diseases and malnutrition among the tribes. 
B)  the increased settlement by homesteaders and the formation of territorial governments. 
C)  the tribes who defeated Custer either fled to Canada or accepted reservation life. 
D)  the building of the transcontinental railroad and the destruction of the buffalo.

Question 12

The discovery that cattle could feed on the prairie grasses of the public domain of the northern plains led to the development of

Accepted Answer

A)  bonanza farms. 
B)  open-range ranching. 
C)  refrigerated railroad cars. 
D)  sharecropping. 
A)  bonanza farms. 
B)  open-range ranching. 
C)  refrigerated railroad cars. 
D)  sharecropping.

Question 13

Explain how and why the government tried to destroy tribal cultures in the late nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

In the late nineteenth century, the US g

Question 14

The long-term results of the Dawes Act for Native Americans were disastrous because it almost totally shattered their cultures.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 16: The Conquest of the West

Bonanza farms were huge corporation-controlled farms in the plains in the early 1880s.

The "conquest of the frontier" was

Which of the following statements about immigrants in the West in the late 1800s is false?

The only transcontinental railroad built without land grants was the

General George Custer's greatest mistake at Little Bighorn was grossly underestimating the number of Native Americans.

The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 set the pattern for government land grants by giving the builders of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads

_______ were/was essential to the culture, religion, and sustenance of the Plains Indians.

What is the definition of the following key term: -Comstock Lode :

Probably the most famous of all the precious metal strikes in the West, the site of the Comstock Lode and the Big Bonanza, was

Transcontinental railroads used their zone of "indemnity" lands to prevent

The two reasons why fighting on the Plains slackened after Custer's 1876 defeat are

The discovery that cattle could feed on the prairie grasses of the public domain of the northern plains led to the development of

Explain how and why the government tried to destroy tribal cultures in the late nineteenth century.

The long-term results of the Dawes Act for Native Americans were disastrous because it almost totally shattered their cultures.

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American Society in the Making

America in the British Empire

The American Revolution

The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant

Jeffersonian Democracy

National Growing Pains

Toward a National Economy

Jacksonian Democracy

The Making of Middle-Class America

West/Ward Expansion

The Sections Go Their Own Ways

The Coming of the Civil War

The War to Save the Union

Reconstruction and the South

An Industrial Giant Emerges

American Society in the Industrial Age

Intellectual and Cultural Trends in the Late Nineteenth Century

From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Prairie Wildfire: 1877-1896

The Age of Reform

From Isolation to Empire

Woodrow Wilson and the Great War

Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment

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The New Deal: 1933-1941

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