Deck 14: Projecting Power, widening Borders: the Politics of Westward Expansion, 1865-1914

Question 1

​On May 10,1869,the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads were joined with the golden spike,which was driven into the ground in what location?

A)Promontory,Utah​
B)Kansas City,Missouri
C)​Jackson,Wyoming
D)​Sacramento,California
E)​Custer County,Nebraska

Answer 1

Promontory,Utah​

Question 2

​Which of the following men favored a U.S.expansionist policy in the late nineteenth century?

A)Mark Twain
B)James G.Blaine
C)​Samuel Gompers
D)​Henry Cabot Lodge
E)​Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 2

James G.Blaine

Question 3

​The United States purchased Alaska from which nation?

A)Russia
B)Norway
C)​Britain
D)​France
E)​Spain

Answer 3

Russia

Question 4

​Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani attempted to reverse powers white settlers had come to enjoy after _____.

A)missionaries began to intermarry with the Hawaiian people
B)U.S.settlers usurped power from the Hawaiians to control the government
C)​the McKinley Tariff Act removed the duty-free status on Hawaiian sugar
D)​the United States obtained exclusive rights to Pearl Harbor

Question 5

​Who proposed the "frontier thesis," that the availability of free land was pivotal to the development of democracy in America?

A)Mark Twain
B)Josiah Strong
C)​Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
D)​Frederick Jackson Turner

Question 6

​Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani attempted to throw Americans out of Hawaii after _____.

A)missionaries began to intermarry with the Hawaiian people
B)U.S.settlers usurped power from the Hawaiians to control the government
C)​the McKinley Tariff Act provided duty-free status on Hawaiian sugar
D)​the United States obtained exclusive rights to Pearl Harbor

Question 7

​The Wilson-Gorman Tariff called for which of the following?

A)Raising the rates on copper
B)Increasing duties on sugar
C)​Supporting reciprocal trade with China
D)​Giving Hawaii favored nation status

Question 8

​Which of the following events took place the year after the defeat of Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

A)Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act.
B)Chief Joseph attempted to lead his band of Nez Percé to Canada.
C)​Geronimo surrendered to the U.S.army and was exiled to Florida.
D)​Grant appointed Ely Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Question 9

​What did Joseph Glidden invent in 1873 that transformed farming in the West?

A)The windmill
B)Barbed wire
C)​The cultivator
D)​The steam-powered thresher
E)​The tractor

Question 10

​Which of the following statements about the U.S.attempt to dominate the West is true?

A)The U.S.army killed Geronimo during his raids throughout the Southwest.
B)The U.S.army thwarted Chief Joseph's attempt to migrate to Canada with his band of Nez Percé.
C)​The Dawes Severalty Act resulted in the sale of 200 million acres of land set aside as Indian reservations to white settlers and speculators.
D)​President Grant favored the annihilation of western Indians.

Question 11

​Which of the following had the greatest influence in the destruction of the buffalo in the 1860s and 1870s?

A)The advent of the railroad
B)A growing Indian population
C)​Changes to the American diet
D)​Disease

Question 12

​Which of the following statements regarding the cattle industry in the American West is false?

A)The cattle boom was relatively short-lived.
B)The harsh winter of 1886-1887 killed thousands of cattle and the hopes of many investors.
C)​Range wars broke out between cattle ranchers and sheep ranchers.
D)​More than one-quarter of cowboys were African Americans.
E)​Sheep and cattle ranchers faced competition from farmers moving westward.

Question 13

​The last major chapter in the Indian wars took place at _____.

A)Little Big Horn
B)Sand Creek
C)​Wounded Knee
D)​Leadville

Question 14

​The most dangerous foreign policy issue that confronted Grover Cleveland during his presidency involved a revolution against Spanish rule in _____.

A)Santa Domingo​
B)Hawaii
C)​Venezuela
D)​Cuba
E)​the Philippines

Question 15

​Which of the following contributed to the Spanish American War?

A)Civil war in Cuba
B)Interference of Joseph Pulitzer
C)​The sinking of the Lusitania
D)​The independence of Panama from Colombia

Question 16

​In The Influence of Sea Power on History,1660-1783,Captain Alfred T.Mahan advocated which of the following?

A)An expansionist policy supported by a strong navy and overseas bases
B)A protectionist policy supported by high tariffs on a range of imported goods
C)​An isolationist policy that would help the United States focus on domestic needs
D)​A foreign policy that would make ties with the most powerful European nations

Question 17

​What was the main purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?

A)To limit the authority of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
B)To return eastern land to Native American tribes
C)​To provide reservation land for the tribes of the Great Plains
D)​To encourage assimilation of Native Americans into white culture

Question 18

​What happened as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

A)Seventy-five thousand Chinese were deported from the United States.
B)Prejudice against Chinese living in the West became more pronounced.
C)​Chinese were barred from entering the United States for 10 years.
D)​The number of Chinese living in the United States fell to less than 50,000.
E)​The Supreme Court's reversal of the law ushered in a series of lawsuits from immigrant groups.

Question 19

​During the period known for yellow journalism,William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer published newspapers in what American city?

A)Chicago
B)San Francisco
C)​Boston
D)​Washington D.C.
E)​New York

Question 20

Grant's peace policy toward Native Americans relied most heavily on _____.​

A)introducing them to Christianity
B)teaching them to be farmers
C)​herding them onto reservations
D)​providing government assistance for their living needs
E)​leaving them to their own devices

Question 21

​The Supreme Court ruled in the Insular Cases that the Philippines and Puerto Rico were possessions of the U.S.and their inhabitants were U.S.citizens.

Question 22

​Native Americans attempted to fight discriminative land practices of white ranchers by forming a secret organization known as the White Caps.

Question 23

Under an 1875 trade treaty,the United States agreed to import sugar duty-free in exchange for exclusive rights to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Question 24

​No one was aboard the USS Maine when it exploded in the Havana Harbor in 1898.

Question 25

​Passed in 1901,the Platt Amendment _____.

A)encouraged trade with China
B)dictated the terms of the Panama Canal Zone
C)​established protectorate status in the Philippines
D)​barred Cuba from allying itself with another foreign power

Question 26

​Chinese workers performed the most dangerous operations in the building of the transcontinental railroad.

Question 27

​The United States declared in the Teller Amendment that it had no intentions of controlling or annexing Cuba if it gained its independence from Spain.

Question 28

​Which of the following was a result of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?

A)The United States gave Colombia permission to build the Panama Canal.
B)The United States obtained control of the Panama Canal Zone.
C)​The United States extended the border with Mexico southward.
D)​War between the United States and Columbia ended.

Question 29

​Dollar diplomacy was applied to Latin America but not to Asia.

Question 30

​In the 1890s,the name "yellow press" was used to describe newspapers that refused to publish any stories that were critical of the government.

Question 31

​The Platt Amendment stated that the United States would not annex Cuba if the island were liberated from Spain.

Question 32

​The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of which policy?

A)Manifest Destiny
B)Monroe Doctrine
C)​Open Door Policy
D)​Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Question 33

In the 1898 treaty ending the Spanish-American War,the United States gained all of the following territories except _____.

A)Guam
B)Puerto Rico
C)​the Philippines
D)​Cuba

Question 34

Which of the following proved to be the final straw that led the United States to enter into the Spanish-American War?

A)The Spanish herded Cubans into concentration camps.
B)Cuban refugees came by boat to the United States seeking refuge from a harsh regime.
C)​The yellow press in the United States published incendiary letters about Spanish actions in Cuba.
D)​The Maine,a U.S.naval vessel,exploded in Havana Harbor.

Question 35

​Which event associated with the Spanish-American War took place first?

A)Filipino independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo was captured.
B)Americans won the Battle of San Juan Hill.
C)​Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines.
D)​Americans defeated the Spanish fleet in Havana.

Question 36

​Hawaii was annexed by the United States following a bloody civil war there.

Question 37

In the Spanish-American War,naval forces commanded by Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet in the Philippines.

Question 38

​Nearly one million buffalo were slaughtered during the 1870s.