Deck 2: Western Expansion, the New South, and Industrial America, 1870-1890

Question 1

The Homestead Act of 1862 took effect on January 1, 1863, the same day as

A) Lincoln's assassination.
B) the Emancipation Proclamation.
C) the Battle of Gettysburg.
D) the start of the Civil War.
E) the end of the Civil War.

Answer 1

the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 2

Southern blacks who moved to the West and North after the Civil War were known as

A) evacuees
B) migrants.
C) immigrants.
D) homeless.
E) exodusters.

Answer 2

exodusters.

Question 3

Which of the following was a major reason cattle drives declined?

A) Barbed wire
B) Dams
C) Mexican War
D) Rustlers
E) Steamboat

Answer 3

Barbed wire

Question 4

The novelist who labeled the ERA shortly after the Civil War as the "Gilded Age" was

A) Susan B. Anthony.
B) Alexander Graham Bell.
C) Sinclair Lewis.
D) Louisa May Alcott.
E) Mark Twain.

Question 5

Which of the following resulted from the Dawes Act of 1887?

A) Ended communal property on reservations
B) Divided reservation land into individual plots
C) Dictated that property was to be owned by head of household
D) Provided Native Americans assistance in learning how to farm
E) All of the above

Question 6

What was the name of the women's group that organized to make liquor illegal?

A) National Organization for Women
B) Women's Christian Temperance Union
C) Young Women's Christian Association
D) Women for Women
E) End Alcohol Now

Question 7

Which state did the Modoc people try to return to causing the Modoc War of 1873?

A) Idaho
B) Arizona
C) Washington
D) California
E) Oregon

Question 8

The tradition of keeping the government out of the workings of the economy is called

A) Populism.
B) Laissez-faire.
C) Progressivism.
D) C'est la vie.
E) Crony capitalism.

Question 9

Which of the following provided free land for settlers to move west?

A) Fort Laramie Treaty
B) Homestead Act
C) Medicine Lodge Treaty
D) Westward Expansion Act
E) None of the above

Question 10

The tax on imported goods is called

A) value added.
B) tariff.
C) excise.
D) sales.
E) property.

Question 11

During the Civil War which side did most Native Americans support?

A) South
B) North
C) Neither
D) Evenly split

Question 12

Native-American men who were absorbed into their wife's extended family is a practice called

A) Matrimony
B) Matrilineal
C) Patrimony
D) Patrilineal
E) None of the above

Question 13

Who led the Lakota Sioux in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876?

A) Cochise
B) Geronimo
C) Red Bull
D) Hawkeye
E) Sitting Bull

Question 14

In what state did the first Trans-Continental Railroad meet?

A) Missouri
B) Arizona
C) Colorado
D) Utah
E) California

Question 15

What precious metal was found in the Klondike Region in 1896?

A) iron
B) copper
C) tin
D) silver
E) gold

Question 16

Prior to adopting the gold standard in 1873, what backed up U.S. paper money?

A) silver
B) nothing
C) gold and silver
D) gold
E) bronze

Question 17

Which of the following Native American tribes primarily inhabited the Northern Plains?

A) Cheyenne
B) Apache
C) Kiowa
D) Sioux
E) Arapaho

Question 18

Which person recommended that young men "Go West"?

A) Mark Twain
B) Andrew Carnegie
C) Horace Greeley
D) Abraham Lincoln
E) Buffalo Bill

Question 19

Which group was the first to be banned due to their race?

A) Korean
B) Chinese
C) Japanese
D) German
E) Irish

Question 20

Which constitutional amendment was passed in 1920 that guaranteed women's right to vote?

A) 24th
B) 20th
C) 19th
D) 9th
E) 11th

Question 21

Discuss how the federal government, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, changed their viewpoint on treatise with Native Americans beginning in the 1870s.

Question 22

Describe how the doctrine of Social Darwinism was used in American business.

Question 23

Explain what "American Exceptionalism" is and how it affects the labor movement.

Question 24

What U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that grain operations were subject to government regulation?

A) Rockford v. U.S.
B) Grain Operators v. Illinois
C) Nabisco v. Indiana
D) Swift v. Muncie
E) Munn v. Illinois

Question 25

Which of the following cities was the major Southern center for steel production?

A) New Orleans
B) Nashville
C) Charlotte
D) Birmingham
E) Atlanta

Question 26

Describe how the tariffs of the post-Civil War era affected the North and South differently.

Question 27

Which of the following was not a goal of the Knights of Labor?

A) minimum wages
B) social security
C) ending child labor
D) maximum number of hours worked
E) collective ownership

Question 28

Explain the difference between the Native Americans and the Anglos regarding private or personal property.

Question 29

Explain the economy of the New South. How did the agricultural system work in particular?

Question 30

Discuss how the reservation system for Native Americans was considered to be generous and humane offer at the time.

Question 31

Which president was assassinated by a disappointed office seeker?

A) Garfield
B) Lincoln
C) Arthur
D) Cleveland
E) McKinley

Question 32

Which federal act regulated the railroads?

A) Interstate Commerce Act
B) Railroad Regulation Act
C) Southwest Commerce Act
D) Public Interest Act
E) Transportation Control Act

Question 33

Discuss the Dawes Act of 1887. What were the results? What was the intent of the Act?

Question 34

What was the name of the federal act that established the Civil Service Commission?

A) Roosevelt Act
B) Pendleton Act
C) Patronage Act
D) Fair Practices and Employment Act
E) Anti-spoils Act

Question 35

Which ethnic group was blamed for the Great Chicago fire of 1873?

A) Irish
B) Polish
C) Germans
D) African Americans
E) Hispanic

Question 36

Which U.S. Constitutional Amendment was thought by some women to guarantee women's right to vote?

A) 12th
B) 19th
C) 14th
D) 18th
E) 17th

Question 37

Discuss why having access to a railroad was so important if you had a farm in the Western states.

Question 38

Discuss the situation with the women's movement and the struggle to gain the vote in the late 19th century.

Question 39

What was the name of John D. Rockefeller's oil company?

A) Standard Oil
B) American Oil
C) Shell Oil
D) National Oil
E) Coast to Coast Oil

Question 40

Who was the woman who challenged the sexual double standard?

A) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B) Josephine Smith
C) Victoria Woodhull
D) Nellie Hardy
E) Susan B. Anthony