Deck 17: The South and the West Transformed, 1865-1900

Question 1

In the crop-lien system,farmers could grow little besides cotton,tobacco,or some other staple crop.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The post-Civil War South industrialized in all of the following areas except

A)the tobacco industry.
B)the weapons industry.
C)the coal industry.
D)the housing industry.
E)the production of iron ore.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The United States government encouraged western settlement by doing all of the following except

A)the construction of transcontinental railroads.
B)military conquest of the Indians.
C)giving land to former slaves.
D)distributing land at low cost to miners.
E)offering low price land to railroad companies.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged the development of thriving western farms.

Question 5

The "Redeemers" of the post-Civil War South included all of the following except

A)Farmers.
B)Lawyers.
C)Merchants.
D)Railroad executives.
E)Entrepreneurs.

Question 6

The Indian wars effectively ended with the capture of Geronimo,a chief of the Chiricahua Apaches.

Question 7

By 1900,lumbering in the South had surpassed textiles in value.

Question 8

As the South industrialized after the Civil War,it saw its greatest industrial gains in

A)agriculture.
B)textiles.
C)housing.
D)mining.
E)cigarette production.

Question 9

After the Civil War two new "frontiers" of opportunity emerged in the United States.They were

A)the North and South.
B)the North and East.
C)the South and East.
D)the North and West.
E)the South and West.

Question 10

The frontier Indian wars began with the closing of the frontier in 1890.

Question 11

Under the Redeemers,there was a well-planned and effective effort to disenfranchise African American voters.

Question 12

Advocates of a New South believed that

A)the South did not need to change.
B)the South needed racial equality.
C)the South should focus on cotton production.
D)the South needed to embrace new technologies.
E)the South should remain exclusively agricultural.

Question 13

The number of cotton mills in the South more than doubled between 1880 and 1900.

Question 14

As a result of high cotton prices,many sharecroppers were able to save money and buy farms.

Question 15

The ___________________ was a romanticized interpretation of Civil War that envisioned Confederates as noble defenders of the southern way of life.

A)"Lost Cause"
B)the Old South
C)the New South
D)the Born-Again South
E)the Peculiar Institution

Question 16

Many in the South believed that they had lost the war because

A)the North was more moral.
B)God was punishing them.
C)the South relied too much on slavery.
D)the South relied too much on slavery and cotton cultivation.
E)the South's economy was too diverse.

Question 17

The area west of the Mississippi had room for all of the following except

A)farms.
B)railroads.
C)seafaring.
D)towns.
E)businesses.

Question 18

Pioneer women enjoyed full equality with men in the West.

Question 19

The main goal in passing the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to swindle the Indians out of their remaining lands.

Question 20

After the Civil War,many southerners dreamed of a freer world of small farms and industry.It was called

A)the New South.
B)the South Redeemed.
C)the Old South.
D)the Southwest.
E)the Southeast.

Question 21

The ______________________ was a series of state constitutional amendments designed to restrict black voting rights in the 1890s.

A)Mississippi Plan
B)Louisiana Plan
C)Georgia Plan
D)Virginia Plan
E)Crop-Lien system

Question 22

As a result of the crop-lien system in the South,farmers often had _____________________ at the end of the harvest.

A)nothing
B)a bonus
C)a wage
D)a larger debt
E)a smaller debt

Question 23

Which of the following statements regarding race relations in the last years of the 19th century is most accurate?

A)Economic,legal,and social discrimination against blacks increased.
B)Social discrimination against blacks increased,but not legal discrimination.
C)Legal discrimination,but not social discrimination,against blacks increased.
D)Legal,social,and economic discrimination against blacks declined.
E)Legal and social discrimination declined.

Question 24

The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v.Ferguson established the legal precedent of

A)separation of powers.
B)judicial review.
C)separate but equal.
D)verticality.
E)capital punishment.

Question 25

Which of the following statements regarding the Southern economy by 1900 is untrue?

A)The South had greatly industrialized.
B)The South was the least industrial part of the United States.
C)The South was the least educated part of the United States.
D)The South was the least urban part of the United States.
E)The South was the least prosperous part of the United States.

Question 26

Which of the following statements regarding southern sharecroppers is inaccurate?

A)Sharecroppers were often poor whites.
B)Sharecroppers were often poor.
C)Sharecroppers worked in return for things like shelter and seed.
D)Sharecroppers were laborers.
E)Sharecroppers were most often black.

Question 27

The use of the Mississippi Plan and the poll tax

A)hurt both black and poor white voters.
B)helped black voters.
C)was rare in the post-Civil War South.
D)benefited immigrants.
E)was widely opposed by southern Democrats.

Question 28

Which of the following statements regarding the Southern economy at the end of the 19th century is most accurate?

A)The southern economy was comparable to the North's.
B)The South was producing as much cotton as it had before the Civil War.
C)The South's economy was stronger than the North's.
D)The South's economy was growing faster than the North's.
E)The South's economy was very diverse.

Question 29

In 1883,the United States Supreme Court ruled that the __________________ was unconstitutional.

A)Thirteenth Amendment
B)Fourteenth Amendment
C)Fifteenth Amendment
D)Civil Rights Act of 1875
E)decision in Plessy v.Ferguson

Question 30

The southerners who participated in the crop-lien system included all of the following except

A)white small farm owners.
B)black small farm owners.
C)sharecroppers.
D)merchants.
E)tenants.

Question 31

In the last quarter of the 19th century,most southern communities lacked ________________,so they relied on ______________.

A)stores,barter
B)banks,imports
C)banks,barter
D)merchants,liens
E)banks,exports

Question 32

Examples of Jim Crow segregation include all of the following except

A)blacks-only restrooms.
B)blacks-only water fountains.
C)blacks-only cemeteries.
D)the grandfather clause.
E)blacks-only railroad cars.

Question 33

The so-called grandfather clause originated in what state?

A)Mississippi
B)Louisiana
C)Georgia
D)Virginia
E)Alabama

Question 34

____________________________ argued that the black response to racial prejudice should be "ceaseless agitation."

A)W.E.B.Du Bois
B)Booker T.Washington
C)James Plunkett
D)Alfred Waddell
E)Henry Smith

Question 35

As the 19th century came to a close,land ownership in the South

A)rose.
B)rose sharply.
C)stagnated.
D)declined.
E)declined sharply.

Question 36

_____________________ was the name given to the violent racism against successful blacks that appeared in late 19th century.

A)Racism
B)Prejudice
C)Negrophobia
D)Jim Crow
E)Segregation

Question 37

______________________ was a tax that had to be paid before a person could vote.

A)An excise tax
B)A tariff
C)A sales tax
D)A poll tax
E)A surcharge

Question 38

________________________ were poor white farmers who rented land in return for a substantial share of the crop they helped bring in.

A)Sharecroppers
B)Farmers
C)Share tenants
D)Merchants
E)Small farmers

Question 39

Which statement regarding the crop-lien system is most accurate?

A)The system was efficient and fair.
B)The system was inefficient,corrupt,and racially unfair.
C)The system worked well for all.
D)The system helped poor blacks.
E)The system was inefficient.

Question 40

By 1900,the per capita income of the South was ___________ that of the national average.

A)10 percent
B)20 percent
C)30 percent
D)40 percent
E)60 percent

Question 41

Before the Civil War,Americans referred to the area between California and the Mississippi River as

A)Kansas.
B)Nebraska.
C)the Great American Desert.
D)Wyoming.
E)Washington.

Question 42

In the latter half of the 19th century of all the following groups migrated to the New West except

A)Mexicans.
B)Europeans.
C)South Americans.
D)Anglo-Americans.
E)Japanese.

Question 43

The early miners to the West initially engaged in ______________ mining and then moved to ________________ mining.

A)placer,hard-rock tunnel
B)open,closed
C)soft rock,hard rock
D)easy rock,hard rock
E)easy core,hard rock

Question 44

The economic situation in the New West can best be described as

A)boom/bust.
B)thriving.
C)declining.
D)stagnating.
E)consistent.

Question 45

According to your textbook,the post-Civil War West symbolized

A)greed and irresponsible behavior.
B)economic opportunity and personal freedom.
C)reckless behavior and decimated wildlife.
D)extermination of Native American culture.
E)terrible tragedy.

Question 46

_____________________ was the name for the African Americans who migrated West in search of social and economic opportunities.

A)Sharecroppers
B)Exodusters
C)Tenant farmers
D)Ecodusters
E)Redeemers

Question 47

As many as __________________ of the cowboys who participated in the Texas cattle drives were African Americans.

A)80 percent
B)70 percent
C)50 percent
D)30 percent
E)25 percent

Question 48

Which of the following statements regarding settlers to the New West after the Civil War is most accurate?

A)Life was easy for this predominantly white population.
B)Settlers were practically guaranteed economic success.
C)Native Americans welcomed all new settlers.
D)Life was challenging for this diverse group of settlers.
E)Farming was the only option for these settlers.

Question 49

_____________________ is the informal system of governing property on the unfenced frontier.

A)Plains ranging
B)Open range
C)Range war
D)Long ranging
E)Free ranging

Question 50

As a result of economic opportunities in New West,________________ boomtowns often appeared suddenly.

A)female-dominated
B)male-dominated
C)Mexican-controlled
D)Chinese-run
E)female-financed

Question 51

Miners were drawn to Nevada's Comstock Lode by the discovery of _____________ there in the 1850s.

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

Question 52

The chilled-iron "sodbuster" plow was developed by

A)Joseph G.McCoy.
B)Henry Comstock.
C)Cyrus McCormick.
D)James Oliver.
E)Albert Singer.

Question 53

More than 200,000 _______________________ arrived in California between 1876 and 1890.

A)African Americans
B)Mexicans
C)Chinese
D)Japanese
E)Europeans

Question 54

In many mining towns,the male to female ratio was as high as

A)50 to 1.
B)25 to 1.
C)100 to 1.
D)9 to 1.
E)2 to 1.

Question 55

___________________ set up the first stockyard for Texas cattle in Abilene,Kansas.

A)Henry Comstock
B)Joseph G.McCoy
C)Cyrus McCormick
D)Samuel Morris
E)Albert Singer

Question 56

The type of cattle that came from Texas to Abilene on the cattle drives were

A)Guernseys
B)Herefords
C)Angus
D)Texas Longhorns
E)Shorthorns

Question 57

In the second half the 19th century all of the following were found in the New West except

A)gold.
B)silver.
C)copper.
D)bronze.
E)iron.

Question 58

All of the following constitute the Great Plains except

A)Nebraska.
B)Oklahoma.
C)Wyoming.
D)Montana.
E)eastern Kansas.

Question 59

All of the following were common problems for homesteaders on the Great Plains except

A)droughts.
B)hailstorms.
C)prairie fires.
D)blizzards.
E)forest fires.

Question 60

In 1882,Congress banned further immigration to the United States from what country?

A)China
B)Japan
C)England
D)Ireland
E)France

Question 61

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

A)moved all Native Americans to Canada.
B)moved all Native Americans to Mexico.
C)attempted to "Americanize" Native Americans.
D)gave Native Americans the right to vote.
E)gave Native Americans representatives in Congress.

Question 62

The "frontier thesis" focused primarily on

A)white women.
B)black women.
C)Indian women.
D)Indian men.
E)Christian white men.

Question 63

In the _________________,Plains tribal chiefs agreed in 1851 to accept definite tribal borders and allow whites to travel west.

A)Abilene Treaty
B)Big Horn Treaty
C)Fort Laramie Treaty
D)Indian Removal Treaty
E)Dawes Treaty

Question 64

_____________________ was the spiritual and political movement started by ___________ to make Indian soldiers bulletproof.

A)The Ghost Dance,Chief Joseph
B)The Ghost Dance,Wovoka
C)The Ghost Dance,Geronimo
D)The Bullet Ceremony,Wovoka
E)The Bullet Ceremony,Chief Joseph

Question 65

____________________ was the powerful Chiricahua Apache chief who was captured by the United States government in 1886.

A)Modoc
B)Chief Joseph
C)Geronimo
D)Red Jacket
E)Ute

Question 66

The __________________ was a new political party made up largely of farmers from the South and West who wanted to gain political influence in the East.

A)Socialist party
B)Democratic party
C)Republican party
D)People's party
E)Communist party

Question 67

Which of the following statements regarding the South and the West by 1900 is most accurate?

A)The South and the West had not changed at all.
B)The South and the West had changed a bit.
C)The South and the West were greatly changed.
D)The South had changed,but not the West.
E)The West had changed,but not the South.

Question 68

According to Frederick Jackson Turner,the frontier

A)defined and shaped America.
B)hurt America's economic development.
C)delayed America's political growth.
D)sparked the Industrial Revolution.
E)caused Americans to be morally weak.

Question 69

The ____________________ was charged with removing the causes of the Indian wars in the West in ____________.

A)Indian Peace Commission,1867
B)Indian Peace Commission,1865
C)Indian Wars Commission,1867
D)Indian Wars Commission,1865
E)Medicine Lodge Commission,1851

Question 70

Which of the following statements best describes the status of Native Americans at the end of the 19th century?

A)Native Americans were better off than they had ever been.
B)Native Americans were better off than they had been before the Civil War.
C)Native Americans were valued by the U.S.government.
D)Native American resistance to westward expansion had been crushed.
E)Native Americans believed they could work with the U.S.government to improve their status.

Question 71

Which of the following tribes did not agree to relocate after a conference at Medicine Lodge,Kansas in 1867?

A)Cheyenne
B)Arapaho
C)Comanche
D)Delaware
E)Kiowas

Question 72

_________________ were the bloody conflicts between U.S.soldiers and Native Americans in the West from the 1860s to the 1870s.

A)The Range wars
B)The Indian wars
C)The Remington wars
D)The Arapaho battles
E)The Medicine Lodge wars

Question 73

Partly as a result of the publication of ____________________ by Helen Hunt Jackson,U.S.policies regarding the Indians gradually _____________.

A)A Century of Dishonor,grew worse
B)A Decade of Dishonor,improved
C)A Century of Dishonor,improved
D)A Decade of Dishonor,grew worse
E)A Day of Dishonor,improved

Question 74

______________________ led the American troops at the infamous Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.

A)Ulysses Grant
B)Robert E.Lee
C)Jeb Stuart
D)Jack Wilson
E)George A.Custer

Question 75

Turner's "frontier thesis" argued that

A)America's frontier had made it more democratic.
B)America's frontier had made it less democratic.
C)America's frontier had made it less open.
D)America's frontier had made it a weak country.
E)America's frontier was a myth.

Question 76

Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis ignored all of the following groups except

A)women.
B)Hispanics.
C)African Americans.
D)Asians.
E)white men.

Question 77

The _________________ tribe allied with the Sioux to fight federal troops in the Great Sioux War in the mid-1870s.

A)Comanche
B)Kiowas
C)Arapaho
D)Cheyenne
E)Paiute

Question 78

According to the ____________________ the frontier era of American development had ended.

A)1890 national census
B)1880 national census
C)1870 national census
D)1900 national census
E)1860 national census

Question 79

Populism was based on the idea that

A)the common man should have more of a say in politics.
B)the rich were more qualified to be politicians.
C)America was run by freedmen.
D)America was under foreign influence politically.
E)politicians were well qualified to rule.

Question 80

The historian who developed the so-called frontier thesis was

A)Eric Foner.
B)David Shi.
C)Frederick Jackson Turner.
D)Shelby Foote.
E)Ignatius Donnelly.