Deck 15: Incorporation of the Us West, 1862-1917

Question 1

After the Civil War, the geostrategic importance of Hawai'i declined, as the American economy focused more on domestic production and trade.​

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Boosters were​

A) railroad investors.​
B) ​railroad day laborers.
C) ​engineers who worked for the railroad company.
D) ​local businessmen who wanted to draw settlers into their communities by boasting about their advantages.
E) ​foreign traders who sought to export American-made products to Asia.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Borderland populations identified themselves as U.S. citizens more than as members of their respective communities. ​

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which of the following is not true about Chinese laborers who worked for the Central Pacific Railroad?​

A) ​They lived in old box cars.
B) ​They made up 90 percent of the labor force.
C) ​The made the same as white laborers.
D) ​They had to pay for their own meals.
E) ​They led an unsuccessful strike to protest wages and work conditions.

Question 5

The Central Pacific Railroad started the first transcontinental line in ​

A) ​Los Angeles, California.
B) ​Las Vegas, Nevada.
C) ​Sacramento, California.
D) ​Carson City, Nevada.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 6

Cowboys were a diverse group of workers who reflected the immigrant culture of the West.​

Question 7

Among the immigrant workers who served as day laborers for the railroads were _____________________ workers.​

A) ​Chinese
B) ​Japanese
C) ​Mexican
D) ​Irish
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 8

Under President Porfirio Diaz​, _____________________ had its own railroad boom.

A) ​Panama
B) ​Mexico
C) ​Cuba
D) ​Venezuela
E) ​Puerto Rico

Question 9

Which one of the following is not one of the Big Four?​

A) ​Leland Stanford
B) ​JJ Hill
C) ​Mark Hopkins
D) ​Collis Huntington
E) ​Charles Crocker

Question 10

​ The two painters who began the Rocky Mountain School. Bierstadt and Moran, eventually made their homes in the West.​

Question 11

The Dawes Act was accepted and followed by all native peoples.​

Question 12

In spite of arguments on behalf of the U.S. census and Frederick Jackson Tuner, it can be fairly argued that the American frontier did not close.​

Question 13

The federal government had little actual involvement in funding the transcontinental railroad.​

Question 14

The economic development of the West intensified with the growth of ​

A) ​population.
B) ​steamboat.
C) ​railroads.
D) ​plantations.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 15

The military turned its attention to the West and conflicts between Indians and settlers after the Civil War.​

Question 16

As the railroad boom continued, there was a rise in the need for _____________________ engineers.​

A) ​electrical
B) ​chemical
C) ​mechanical
D) ​mining
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 17

Both Indians and white settlers over-hunted bison to fill market demand. ​

Question 18

The Pacific Railroad Acts financed the transcontinental railroad through ​

A) ​land grants.
B) ​selling stock to railway workers.
C) ​foreign loans.
D) ​corporate loans.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 19

The driving force behind railroad development was Americans' desire for commercial ties linking the nation with western ports for trade with Japan and China.​

Question 20

Railroads adopted the policy of standard time in​

A) ​1880.
B) ​1881.
C) ​1882.
D) ​1883.
E) ​1884.

Question 21

Buffalo soldiers were cavalry regiments made up of _____________________ soldiers.​

A) ​white American
B) ​Chinese American
C) ​Mexican American
D) ​foreign mercenary
E) ​African American

Question 22

Wounded Knee was​

A) ​a victory for Native Americans.
B) ​an annual ritual of remembrance for Civil War soldiers.
C) ​a tragic event where Sioux Indians were slaughtered by the Seventh Cavalry.
D) ​a settlement on the U.S.-Canadian border.
E) ​a frontier trading post.

Question 23

Which of the following is not true about the Dawes Act? ​

A) ​I t allotted land to native peoples.
B) ​It ultimately led to loss of land among natives.
C) ​It created barriers for Indians to become U.S. citizens.
D) ​It set up schools for Native Americans.
E) It sought to assimilate Indians into mainstream society.

Question 24

​The Homestead Act provided land ownership to those who built improvements on the land and lived on it for _____________________ years.

A) ​five
B) ​seven
C) ​ten
D) ​twelve
E) ​ fifteen

Question 25

The Edmunds-Tucker Act prohibited the practice of ​

A) ​exploiting laborers through share-cropping.
B) ​polygamy.
C) ​selling land received from the government for personal gain.
D) passing Black Codes in territories.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 26

In _____________________ , Wyoming granted equal and complete voting rights to women.​

A) ​1869
B) ​1879
C) ​1889
D) ​1899
E) ​1909

Question 27

Which of the following is true about the Mormon practice of polygamy?​

A) ​The Manifesto reaffirmed the practice among Mormons.
B) ​It was not an issue in the process of admitting Utah as a state.
C) ​Mexico and Canada provided havens for polygamous families.
D) ​Once the Mormon church renounced the practice, it ended immediately among Mormon families.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 28

Which of the following is true about the West in the post-Reconstruction era?​

A) ​Violence escalated dramatically.
B) The War Department established a system of forts and ​increased military presence in the region.
C) ​Grant initiated his Peace Policy in an effort to resolve disputes with natives in a more benevolent manner.
D) ​Native peoples were moved onto reservations.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 29

Which of the following is true about the Homestead Act?​

A) ​Women were not allowed to receive land.
B) ​It provided fifty acres of land.
C) ​It was only open to U.S. citizens.
D) ​It was open to heads of households who were twenty-one years old.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 30

​Which of the following countries established schools aimed at acculturating native children into mainstream society?

A) ​Canada
B) ​Australia
C) ​New Zealand
D) the United States.​
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 31

The U.S. Geological Survey was founded in ​

A) ​1876.
B) ​1877.
C) ​1878.
D) ​1879.
E) ​1880.

Question 32

Exodusters were groups of _____________________ who migrated from the U.S. South to the Midwest looking to start farms using the Homestead Act.​

A) ​Native Americans
B) ​African Americans
C) ​Mexican Americans
D) ​Asian Americans
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 33

The Ghost Dance ritual was revived by​

A) ​Wovoka
B) ​Big Foot
C) ​Sitting Bull
D) ​Richard Pratt
E) ​Chief Joseph

Question 34

Which of the following is true about the development of railroads in Mexico?​

A) ​It made migration between Mexico and the United States easier.
B) ​Mexican families followed men who traveled north in search of work.
C) ​The Mexican economy shifted from a subsistence to an export market driven economy.
D) ​In Mexico, there was a migration from rural to urban centers.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 35

Among those who gained access to land by way of the Homestead Act and other land distribution programs were ​

A) ​Mexican Americans.
B) ​Indians.
C) ​women.
D) ​freedmen.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 36

The Ghost Dance was intended

A) ​to give praise to Civil War veterans who had lost their lives in the war.
B) ​to reaffirm the faith of Mormons.
C) ​as a ceremony of remembrance for slaves who had lost their lives trying to escape the South.
D) ​to turn Native American defeats into triumphs.
E) None of these are correct.

Question 37

The Dawes Act was passed in ​

A) ​1885.
B) ​1886.
C) ​1887.
D) ​1888.
E) ​1889.

Question 38

Accommodationists were natives who​

A) ​resisted all elements of white culture.
B) ​reached out to freedmen to resist the onslaught of white settlers.
C) ​sought to accommodate to the demands of the U.S. government in an effort to live more peacefully.
D) ​fought the U.S Army as they pushed natives onto reservations.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 39

The Indians' most valuable resource, which got depleted as the U.S. government aimed to move them onto reservations was​

A) ​fish.
B) ​horses.
C) ​bison.
D) ​cattle.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 40

Residents living in territories​

A) ​did not enjoy full citizenship rights.
B) ​were not represented in Congress.
C) ​could not vote in presidential elections
D) ​were governed by appointed, not elected governors.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 41

Frederick Jackson Turner analyzed the effects of _____________________ on the American character.​

A) ​slavery
B) ​immigration
C) ​capitalism
D) ​the frontier
E) ​imperialism

Question 42

Which of the following was not a writer who chronicled the development of the West in the late nineteenth century?​

A) ​Mark Twain.
B) ​Mary Halleck Foote.
C) ​Bret Harte.
D) ​James Fenimore Cooper.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 43

Padrones were ​

A) ​Midwestern farmers.
B) ​cattle ranchers.
C) agents who recruited workers in their home country.​
D) ​freedmen who worked in mining.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 44

American Progress was painted by ​

A) ​John Gast
B) ​Thomas Moran
C) ​Frederick Jackson Turner
D) ​Albert Bierstadt
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 45

Which of the following transformed U.S. agriculture​ during the second half of the nineteenth century?

A) ​grain elevators
B) ​irrigation technology
C) ​windmill technology
D) ​drought-resistant seeds
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 46

Huckleberry Finn was written by _____________________

A) ​Bill Cody.
B) ​Mark Twain.
C) ​Thomas Moran.
D) ​John Gast.
E) ​James Fenimore Cooper.

Question 47

The Rocky Mountain School was started by two painters born in ​

A) ​England.
B) ​the United States.
C) ​Germany.
D) ​Ireland.
E) ​France.

Question 48

Which of the following was not an event that ​marked the incorporation of the West into the nation?

A) ​The annexation of Hawai'i.
B) ​Indian violence stopping after the massacre at Wounded Knee.
C) ​The Buffalo Bill Show.
D) ​Turner's ideas on the frontier.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 49

The frontier was declared closed by the _____________________ census.​

A) ​1870
B) ​1880
C) ​1890
D) ​1900
E) ​1910

Question 50

Painters from the Rocky Mountain School painted images of​

A) ​the Old South.
B) ​the West.
C) ​foreign lands.
D) urban areas in the North.
E) ​Hawai'i and the Pacific.

Question 51

The Goodnight-Loving Trail was used for​

A) ​explorations.
B) ​migration of settlers.
C) ​crime fighting.
D) ​cattle driving.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 52

The Homestead Act was passed in ​

A) ​1860.
B) ​1862.
C) ​1865.
D) ​1870.
E) ​1872.

Question 53

_____________________ was the first national park.​

A) ​Glacier
B) ​Yosemite
C) ​Yellowstone
D) ​Rocky Mountain
E) ​Denali

Question 54

The greatest purveyors of the U.S. West as a travel destination was (were) ​

A) ​painters.
B) ​railroad companies.
C) ​literature.
D) ​travelogues.
E) ​magazine articles.

Question 55

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show included which of the following?​

A) ​sharpshooters, such as Annie Oakley
B) ​Indians, such as Sitting Bull
C) ​a staged Buffalo Hunt
D) ​a reenactment of Little Big Horn
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 56

The mechanical combine expedited the process of ​

A) ​planting seeds.
B) ​feeding cattle.
C) ​herding cattle.
D) binding wheat in bales.
E) ​building houses.

Question 57

Until the 1890s, most miners were  ​

A) ​Irish.
B) ​Italian.
C) ​Mexican.
D) ​English.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 58

Range wars were fought over the use of private property and government lands to​

A) ​graze cattle.
B) ​build houses.
C) ​establish farms.
D) ​build factories.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 59

In 1875, the United States signed a treaty with _____________________ allowing its sugar to enter the U.S. market duty free.

A) Cuba
B) ​Puerto Rico
C) ​Haiti
D) ​Hawai'i
E) ​Barbados

Question 60

Most of the sugar plantations in Hawai'i were owned by​

A) ​Hawaiians.
B) ​Americans.
C) ​the British.
D) ​the Chinese.
E) ​the Japanese.

Question 61

Talk About:  borderlands​

Question 62

Talk About:  railway time​

Question 63

Talk About:   Reynolds v. United States​

Question 64

Talk About:  standard time​

Question 65

Talk About:  The Manifesto​

Question 66

Talk About:  Edmunds-Tucker Act​

Question 67

Talk About:  Central Pacific Railroad​

Question 68

Talk About:  Buffalo Soldiers​

Question 69

Talk About:  Susanna M. Salter​

Question 70

Talk About:  Southern Pacific Railroad Company​

Question 71

Talk About:  boosters​

Question 72

Talk About:  Mexican Central Railroad​

Question 73

Talk About:  U.S. Geological Survey​

Question 74

Talk About:  Timber Culture Act​

Question 75

Talk About:  Homestead Act​

Question 76

Talk About:  polygamy​

Question 77

Talk About:  Promontory Summit​

Question 78

Talk About:  Standard Time Act​

Question 79

Talk About:  land grants​

Question 80

Talk About:  Big Four​