Deck 8: Land and the Early Western Movements

Question 1

U.S.citizens migrating to Illinois in the first half of the 19ᵗʰ century would most likely have come from:

A)Massachusetts and New Jersey.
B)California and Oregon.
C)North and South Carolina.
D)Up the Mississippi River from Louisiana and Mississippi.

Answer 1

Massachusetts and New Jersey.

Question 2

The Land Ordinance of 1787 provided that a state would be admitted to the Union when it's population reached

A)5,000.
B)30,000.
C)60,000.
D)100,000.

Answer 2

60,000.

Question 3

Which was not one of the main U.S.land acquisitions?

A)The Oregon Country.
B)The Texas Annexation.
C)The Florida Acquisition.
D)The Gadsden Purchase.
E)All of the above are U.S.land acquisitions.

Answer 3

The Oregon Country.

Question 4

Eli Whitney is most noted for

A)inventing the steam engine.
B)inventing the cotton gin.
C)inventing the technology for the first railroad engine.
D)developing the Erie Canal.

Question 5

Under the system of "township planning"

A)no one could own land that had not been previously surveyed.
B)settlers chose their own plots of land,under the supervision of a county surveyor.
C)legal descriptions of property made reference to permanent natural objects.
D)gaps between unsettled and settled land were encouraged.

Question 6

A liberal philosophy of land distribution would support which of the following rules about paying for western land?

A)High minimum acreage rules for people buying land.
B)High minimum prices for land.
C)Credit payments for the land.

Question 7

For a decade after the Land Ordinance of 1785,pioneering in parts of the Northwest Territory was restricted by all of the following except

A)Indian troubles.
B)French interference.
C)English interference.
D)high prices of land.

Question 8

Which was not one of the main U.S.land acquisitions?

A)Mexican Cession.
B)Western Purchase.
C)Gadsden Purchase.
D)The Oregon Country.

Question 9

According to Walton and Rockoff,all of the following were among Jefferson's main goals for land policy except:

A)To assure clear property rights to the land owned by individuals.
B)To drive Indians off the land and secure it for American settlers.
C)To provide revenues to the federal government through sales.
D)To spread democratic institutions.

Question 10

What best describes Thomas Jefferson's view of how American Indians should be treated?

A)Tribes should be forced to leave their native lands in the east and move west.
B)Indians should have full property rights that should be respected by whites.
C)Indians could continue to live on their reservations but the federal government should have access to all mining and natural resources on their land.

Question 11

Land "liberals" in the 19ᵗʰ century

A)believed that the sale of the public domain should provide substantial government revenue.
B)voted against the Homestead Act of 1862.
C)supported the sale of the public domain in small plots.
D)were against the extension of credit to land buyers.

Question 12

Large increases in agricultural productivity were not the primary reasons for migrating to which area of the nation during the antebellum period?

A)Illinois and Wisconsin
B)Indiana and Ohio
C)The far west
D)Texas and Mississippi

Question 13

Which statement best describes the trend in land allocation laws from the Land Ordinance of 1785 to the Homestead Act of 1862?

A)The changes were more favorable to those who held a conservative belief about land allocation.
B)The changes were more favorable to those who held a liberal belief about land allocation.
C)There was no consistent trend in the changes;some changes favored the conservatives and others favored the liberals.

Question 14

U.S.cotton production

A)remained concentrated in Georgia and South Carolina until after 1860.
B)was unable to compete with wool production in the antebellum textile industry.
C)accounted for more than half of the dollar value of US exports between 1800 and 1850.
D)faced declining world demand for most of the antebellum period.

Question 15

Under the Graduation Act (1854),land prices for the public domain

A)were subject to a schedule that reflected reduced prices for land that remained unsettled over time.
B)were subject to a schedule that reflected reduced prices for native-born Americans and higher prices for immigrants.
C)were increased to $1.25 per acre in cash.
D)were increased to reflect inflation.

Question 16

Which of the following was the most important factor determining the volume of land sales in the Midwest and South during the antebellum period?

A)Immigration.
B)Indian resistance to settlement.
C)Agricultural prices.
D)Governmental road building.

Question 17

During the antebellum period,the "Old Northwest" became the leading producer of

A)corn.
B)wheat.
C)hogs.
D)All of the above.

Question 18

The Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787 included provisions for all of the following except:

A)surveys prior to sale of Western land.
B)the number of states that could be created from the Northwest Territory.
C)guidelines for the eventual creation of Western states.
D)sale of the land in plots of one square mile.
E) All of the above were provisions of the ordinances.

Question 19

The immigrants most likely to go directly to the lands in the West,rather than be absorbed into the eastern city populations,were from

A)England and Scotland.
B)Germany
C)Ireland.
D)France.

Question 20

A conservative philosophy of land distribution would not support which of the following?

A)High minimum acreage rules for people buying land.
B)High minimum prices for land.
C)Credit payments for the land.

Question 21

What would be the impact of a virus that infected the Midwestern corn crop?

A)Price of corn increases and the price of wheat decreases.
B)Price of corn decreases and the quantity of wheat increases.
C)Quantities of corn and wheat increase.
D)Quantity of corn decreases and the price of wheat increases.

Question 22

What would best characterize the relationship between corn prices,wheat prices and the public sale of western land (OH,IL,IN,MI,IA,WI,MO)between 1815-1860?

A)All three were very positively correlated.
B)Land sales increased first,which drew people to move and produce more crops,which increased the crop prices.
C)As land sales increased,corn prices increased and wheat prices decreased as farmers substituted from wheat to corn.
D)Land sales were negatively related to both the wheat and corn prices.

Question 23

What best describes the impact of the cotton gin?

A)A decrease in the price and an increase in the quantity of cotton.
B)An increase in the price and a decrease in the quantity of cotton.
C)Decreases in both the price and quantity of cotton.
D)Increases in both the price and quantity of cotton.

Question 24

The pace of settlement of the Old Northwest (Ohio,Indiana,Illinois,... )was determined primarily by the prices of

A)soybeans,sorghum,and potatoes.
B)gold and silver.
C)corn,hogs,and wheat.
D)cattle,leather,and cheese.

Question 25

What industry was the main economic impetus behind antebellum migration to the West Coast?

A)Fishing.
B)Cattle.
C)Fruit.
D)Mining.

Question 26

What best describes westward movement of population between 1800-1860?

A)The 1850s was the decade when the largest number of people moved to the west.
B)The large increase in and sales in this period was based on speculation.
C)Migrants moved to the west because they were "pushed" out of the east,where conditions were getting worse.
D)Corn prices were relatively low in the decades when migration to the west was largest.