Westward Expansion & Populism EOC Review

Multiple Choice

Which policy offered cheap land to encourage settlers to move out West?

• The Pacific Railway Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Morrill Land Grant Act

Multiple Choice

Which historical development promoted economic growth by connecting the West to markets back East?

• The Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

• The Reservation System

• The Transcontinental Railroad

Multiple Choice

Which of the following describes an effect of westward expansion on Native Americans?

• Native American culture declined as they were pushed on to federal Reservations

• Native American culture prospered as settlers claimed land through the Homestead Act

• Native American culture suffered because they were forced into Sharecropping

• Native American culture was promoted through the assimilation process at Boarding Schools

Multiple Choice

Which policy divided tribal reservation into individual allotments and required individual native american families to adopt agricultural practices?

• Reservation System

• Boarding Schools

• Dawes Act

• Destruction of the Buffalo

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of establishing Boarding Schools?

• Assimilating Native American children into American culture

• Innovating new agricultural practices to use on Reservations

• Teaching Native Americans modern styles of warfare

• Americanizing Native American women to serve in domestic roles in suburbs

Multiple Choice

Economic challenges for farmers in the 19th Century were: Overproduction, High Debt, High Shipping Rates, and ____________________.

• Bimetallism

• The Gold Standard

• The Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Commision

Multiple Choice

How did farmers respond to economic challenges in the late 19th Century?

• The developed Settlement Houses & Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• They organized the Grange Movement & Populist Party

• They passed bimetallism to reduce crop prices

• They formed labor unions to fight for fair working condititions

Multiple Choice

Why did the Populist Party support a policy of Bimetallism?

• To gain access to bank loans

• To improve working conditions

• To increase shipping rates

• To raise crop prices

Multiple Choice

In the Cross of Gold speech William Jennings Bryan argued for bimetallism in order to...

• Add free coinage of silver to the existing gold standard to increase profits

• Use free coinage of silver and eliminate the gold standard to reduce crop prices

• Increase free coinage of gold to improve the economic conditions of farmers

• Reduce free coinage of gold to increase farmers profits