Citizenship & Western Expansion Review Quiz

Which of the following best characterizes the era of Western Expansion in the late nineteenth century?

• Freednmen’s goals conflicted with those of Republican leaders, who wanted cotton to return high dividends

• Nationwide movements for workers’ rights arose in response to industrialization and exploitation.

• Immigrants were drawn to rapid industrialization and production in a new mass consumer culture.

• Homesteaders accelerated the transformation of the western environments by converting grasslands for agriculture.

The Homestead Act of 1862 contributed most directly to the—

• growth of large urban areas

• establishment of agricultural colleges

• migration of Chinese immigrants to work on the railroads

• increase in conflict between Native American and settlers

Which item should be added to the following list of Agricultural innovations of the 1800s: Dry Farming, Steel Plow, ?

• Large scale irrigation

• Barbed wire

• Slash and burn techniques

• Sowing seed by hand

What would be an appropriate title for this list:

-Built sod houses

-Used barbed wire fences

-Burned cow and buffalo chips for fuel

• Nomadic Life for American Indians

• Causes of the Range Wars

• Cooperation Between American Indians and Farmers

• Adaptations to Life on the Great Plains

Which connection is correct?

• Restrictions on mineral rights => More private ownership of mines

• passage of legislation => increased opportunities for land purchases & expanded transportation

• created conservation programs => increased availability of lumber for home building on the great plains

• ban of immigrant labor => increased U.S. citizen labor market

"The fact is that here is a new product that is American. At first, the frontier was the Atlantic coast. It was the frontier of Europe in a very real sense. Moving westward, the frontier became more and more American… Thus… the advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from the influence of Europe, a steady growth of independence on American lines."

—Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History, 1893

QUESTION: This excerpt best reflects the belief that the most important factor in creating an American was the—

• Self-sufficiency and determination gained

• Separation of the continents

• Migration of people from Europe to America

• Assimilation of Native American

"Go west, young man, and grow up with the country."

—Horace Greeley, Hints Toward Reform, 1854

QUESTION: This excerpt best reflects -

• The Pacific Railroad Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Manifest Destiny

• The Farmers Alliance

-Attend Native American Schools

-Learn English

-Live in designated areas

-Adapt to farming

QUESTION: Which of the following is best supported by the excerpt?

• Assimilation and Americanization of Native Americans

• Activation of Native American military forces

• Native American Tribes obtaining more land to continue their traditional way of life

• Native Americans' eagerness to adapt to a new life

This provided people 160 acres of land for anyone willing to work the land for 5 years and helped populate the west-

• the Homestead Act

• the Morrill Act

• the Indian Removal Act

• the Dawes Act

The increase in America's consumption of beef also coincided with the spread of-

• Railroads

• Homesteads

• Native American Reservation Systems

• Asian Immigration