USHC-4 SC EOC Review

According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner the American frontier is responsible for what American characteristics?

• rugged individualism

• political democracy

• economic mobility

• all of the above

Besides Native Americans the west was settled by what people groups?

• Chinese immigrants

• Mexicans (many of whom would become citizens with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)

• Recently freed African Americans

• All of the above.

Which of the following is the best example of an oversimplified reason for the settlement of the west?

• Rugged American Individualism

• Government sponsored programs to spur settlement such as the Homestead Act.

• Government intervention to remove Native Americans to reservations.

• Government subsidies for various western railroad lines.

Which two reasons are railroads responsible for Western settlement?

• Without Railroads there would be no way to bring crops & livestock to market

• Railroads made life in the West possibly by supplying individuals.

• Without Railroads there would be no way to communicate with the rest of the country.

• Railroads made life in the West possible as they were the greatest source of water.

Which two reasons were presented by Crash Course as the reasons for the progressive removal of Native American populations in the West?

• Economic - Many Native American lands were home to rare minerals or needed for railroads.

• Racial Imperative

• Social Darwinism

• Religious - Many Americans felt the Native Americans were godless savages.

Which two American Generals are known for their harsh tactics in fighting the Native Americans?

• Philip H. Sheridan

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Nathan Bedford Forrest

• Ulysses S. Grant

Which animal essential to the life of many Native Americans was hunted to near extinction due to Western expansion?

• Buffalo

• Elk

• Mule Deer

• Mountain Goats

What Native American spiritual movement was an alternative form of resistance to western expansion?

• The Ghost Dance movement

• Dog Soldiers

• Conversation to Catholicism

• All of the above

What notable Native American victory saw the complete destruction of the U.S. cavalry force led by George Custard?

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Fort Laramie

• Fort Dodge

When had the majority of Native Americans been subdued in the American West?

• 1890

• 1860

• 1900

• 1924