U.S. I Honors Final Exam Spring 2022

What was one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act?

• They had to file a claim with the bank

• They had to farm the land for five years in a row

• They had to wheel portable cabins from plot to plot

• They had to live on the land all year long

The army encouraged the killing of buffalo in order to

• starve Native Americans

• make way for new railroad lines

• protect crops

• force Native Americans onto reservations

He was wiped out at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

• George Custer

• J.G. McCoy

• Charles Goodnight

• Chief Joseph

Farmers opposed the gold standard because they claimed that it would

• undermine the national economy

• cause high inflation

• cause prices for their crops to decline

• make the currency unstable

Which of the following did the Populist Party suggest would raise crop prices?

• government ownership of railroads

• a graduated income tax

• an alliance of urban workers

• the coinage of "free silver"

Which state was the first to allow women suffrage?

• Texas

• Virginia

• Maryland

• Wyoming

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

• Mexican and Mexican Americans

• Bat Masterson

• American Cowboys

• Native Americans

Starting in the mid-1800s, hoards of people traveled to the West out of a desire to

• strike it rich by finding gold or silver

• hunt buffalo

• see the Pacific Ocean

• live in urban environments

What did the Morrill Land Grant Actand the Homestead Act have in common?

• They provided ways for settlers to acquire western land

• They enabled railroad companies to develop the land near their tracks

• They forced Native Americans onto reservations

• They discriminated against African American families

The Populist Party lost power in large part as a result of

• the 1896 election of McKinley

• the collapse of the gold standard

• their refusal to endorse William Jennings Bryan

• their exclusion of African Americans