Progressive Era Review Game

Homesteaders on the plains usually built homes of

• bricks

• wood

• stone

• sod

How did new railroads benefit western cattle ranchers?

• provided a way to transport meat to eastern markets

• allowed cowboys to travel easily between cattle herds and their homes

• made it easier for ranchers to keep track of their herds

• encouraged eastern cowboys to make a living in the West

Which of the following best describes the lives of typical western homesteaders in the late 1800s?

• overcrowded but exciting

• challenging yet comfortable

• peaceful and prosperous

• difficult and lonely

The assimilation of Native Americans was a goal of

• the Battle of Little Big Horn.

• the Dawes General Allotment Act.

• leaders such as Crazy Horse.

• leaders such as Chief Joseph.

The “Rough Riders” were

• Cuban revolutionaries who battled the Spanish for independence.

• a volunteer cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War.

• newspaper owners who influenced public opinion by exaggerating the truth.

• Spanish generals in Cuba who mistreated the civilian population.

The open-range system of raising livestock was originally developed by

• American cowboys.

• Mexican vaqueros

• Bat Masterson.

• Native Americans.

Work hard and wait patiently, he believed, African Americans would gradually win white Americans’ respect.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• John Muir

• Jacob Riis

Muckraker who turned the camera on the crowed, unsafe, rat-infested tenement buildings where the urban poor lived.

• Upton Sinclair

• John Muir

• Jacob Riis

• Booker T. Washington

A Filipino nationalist who rebelled separately against Spain and the United States.

• W.E.B. Su Bois

• Upton Sinclair

• John Muir

• Emilio Aguinaldo

A policy in which strong nations control weaker countries or territories.

• "big stick" diplomacy

• Social Darwinism

• Imperialism

• "moral diplomacy"