Period 6 Quiz

The conflict between the Sioux nation and the United States was primarily driven by differing

• claims to land

• family structures

• forms of government

• styles of farming

Which of the following was typical of agreements such as the Fort Laramie Treaty between the United States government and American Indians in the post–Civil War West?

• They frequently led to the formation of a common interest between the United States government and American Indians in controlling the activities of White settlers.

• They generally led to the formation of strong, independent American Indian nations.

• They led to the abandonment of most reservations as American Indian families sought economic opportunities in urban areas.

• They usually lasted a short time before being broken by settlers’ incursions onto American Indian reservations.

Article 6 of the treaty most likely reflected which of the following sentiments?

• A desire by many American Indians to change their way of life

• A hope held by some in government that American Indians would adopt lifestyles similar to the lifestyles of White settlers

• A need felt by many American Indians to more clearly legitimize their claims to the land

• A wish by some in government to protect American Indian landholdings from encroachments by railroads

Which of the following contributed to reducing the conflict that article 11 and similar provisions of other treaties were designed to address?

• A decrease in the number of White settlers traveling near reservations

• The destruction of nearly the entire population of buffalo

• The implementation of government conservation policies that protected large areas of public land

• The rerouting of several major railroads to avoid tribal lands

Which of the following best describes the overarching goals of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century?

• Cooperative democracy and a stronger governmental role in the economic system

• Establishment of a transcontinental network of trains and the improvement of roads in the western United States

• Expansion of United States influence in Central America and access to new international markets

• Social and political reform guided by the idea of the survival of the fittest

Activists formed the Populist Party most directly in response to the

• development of reform movements inspired by the Second Great Awakening

• emergence of concerns about abuses of the environment

• growth of corporate power in agriculture and economic instability in farming

• rise of monopolies and reduction of wages for industrial workers

Which of the following most directly contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?

• Global fluctuations in credit and stock markets

• Progressive Era reforms of social conditions in the United States

• The outbreak of global war

• The transformation of the United States into an industrial society

The pattern depicted in the graph in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly resulted in

• a more unified national culture that embraced immigrants

• federal provision of financial assistance to immigrants

• the establishment of settlement houses

• the formation of a political party that promoted nativism

The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1821 and 1880 settled in the

• Midwest and Northeast

• South and Midwest

• South and Northeast

• West and Midwest

Problems associated with the conditions depicted in the image most directly led to

• calls for a return to an agrarian economy and society

• decreases in union activism and membership

• demands for increased federal regulation of industry

• economic instability and recession