AP - Chapter 26: The Great West & Agricultural Revolution

The Buffalo Soldiers were...

• U. S. Army units who survived on the plains by killing buffalo.

• African American cavalry and soldiers who served in the frontier wars.

• soldiers who sought to defeat the Indians by depriving them of their primary food supply.

• soldiers who were killed in the Fetterman massacre.

• soldiers who were court martialed for assisting Plains Indians with food and other provisions.

In the warfare that raged between the Indians and the American military after the Civil War...

• the Indians were never as well armed as the soldiers.

• the U.S. army was able to dominate with its superior technology.

• there was often great cruelty and massacres on both sides.

• Indians proved to be no match for the soldiers.

• Indians and soldiers seldom came into face-to-face combat.

The buffalo were nearly exterminated...

• as a result of being overhunted by the Indians.

• when their grasslands were turned into wheat and corn fields.

• when their meat became valued in eastern markets.

• by disease.

• through wholesale butchery by whites.

To assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following except...

• dissolve many tribes as legal entities.

• try to make rugged individualists of the Indians.

• wipe out tribal ownership of land.

• promise Indians U.S. citizenship in twenty-five years.

• expand recognized tribes' collective land ownership holdings.

In 1890, when the superintendent of the census announced that a stable frontier line was no longer discernible, Americans were disturbed because

• they knew that the Homestead Act would no longer do them much good.

• they thought that there would be a renewal of Indian warfare.

• the idea of an endlessly open West had been an element of America's history from the beginning.

• many of them hoped eventually to migrate to the West.

• they feared that an influx of new western states would strengthen the Populists and other radicals.

The root cause of the American farmers' problems after 1880 was...

• underproduction of agricultural foodstuffs.

• foreign competition.

• the declining number of farms and farmers.

• the shortage of farm machinery.

• low prices and a deflated currency.

The first major farmers' organization was the...

• National Grange.

• Populists.

• Greenback Labor Party.

• Farmers' Alliance.

• American Farm Bureau.

104. The original purpose of the Grange was to

• get involved in politics.

• support an inflationary monetary policy.

• stimulate self-improvement through educational and social activities.

• improve the farmers' collective plight.

• support the Homestead law.

The Democratic party nominee for president in 1896 was ____; the Republicans nominated ____; and the Populists endorsed ____.

• William McKinley; Mark Hanna; William Jennings Bryan

• William Jennings Bryan; William McKinley; James B. Weaver

• William Jennings Bryan; William McKinley; William Jennings Bryan

• Mark Hanna; William Jennings Bryan; William Jennings Bryan

• William Jennings Bryan; Theodore Roosevelt; William Jennings Bryan

In the election of 1896, the major issue became...

• restoration of protective tariffs.

• enactment of an income tax.

• government programs for those unemployed as a result of the depression.

• guaranteeing unions the right to organize and collectively bargain.

• free and unlimited coinage of silver.