Unit 3 Social Studies Assessment

Why did the United States take over construction of the Panama Canal?

• to help stabilize the Panamanian economy

• to improve diplomatic relations with Colombia

• to improve trade between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

• to drain the region's swamps so it could be developed

Read the text. Then answer the question that follows.

Davey is a rancher living in Texas in the late nineteenth century. There is little demand for cattle where Davey lives because cattle ranching is a major industry there and most people own their own cattle. Recently, he has heard that people who live in Chicago, New York, and other East Coast cities are willing to pay high prices for beef.

Based on this information and your knowledge of social studies, what does Davey have an incentive to do?

• A. abandon his ranch and move to the East Coast

• move his cattle along cattle trails to major rail lines for shipment

• open a cattle ranch in one of the growing cities in the east

• sell his cattle to people who live within his community

As president, Theodore Roosevelt sought to increase the global power and influence of the United States. Why was the completion of the Panama Canal important to this goal?

B. The canal would protect the United States from invasion and allow the government to focus spending on improving the economy.

• The canal would protect the United States from invasion and allow the government to focus spending on improving the economy.

• The canal would help the United States control the global oil supply and generate profits by taxing its transport through the canal.

• The canal would provide a way for the US Navy to quickly travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to protect US interests.

• The canal would encourage the spread of democracy in the Americas and improve diplomatic relations throughout the region.

As president, Theodore Roosevelt sought to increase the global power and influence of the United States. Why was the completion of the Panama Canal important to this goal?

• The canal would provide a way for the US Navy to quickly travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to protect US interests.

• The canal would encourage the spread of democracy in the Americas and improve diplomatic relations throughout the region.

• The canal would help the United States control the global oil supply and generate profits by taxing its transport through the canal.

• The canal would protect the United States from invasion and allow the government to focus spending on improving the economy.

What is the significance of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to the aviation industry? Provide your answer in one sentence.

People who drove cattle on the Chisholm Trail during the post–Civil War era traveled through which three present-day states?

• New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming

• Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansa

• New Mexico, Arizona, and California

• Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

Use the excerpt to answer the following question:

On October 9, 1876, [the inventor] and Thomas A. Watson talked by telephone to each other over a two-mile wire stretched between Cambridge and Boston. It was the first wire conversation ever held. Yesterday afternoon the same two men talked by telephone to each other over a 3,400-mile wire between New York and San Francisco. . . . They heard each other much more distinctly than they did in their first talk thirty-eight years ago. — The New York Times, "Phone to Pacific from Atlantic", 1915

Which inventor made the historic phone call referenced in The New York Times?

• Samuel Morse

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• John Moses Browning

Due to its location near iron and coal deposits, which of these cities became the center of the US steel industry during the nineteenth century?

• city W

• city X

• . city Z

• city Y

During the late 1800s, many immigrants from China came to the United States and settled throughout California and the West. What "pull" factor led them to settle in this area?

• the rich soil in the region that was good for farming

• the growth of meatpacking plants in response to demand in urban centers

• the many jobs available in factories in the region

• the opportunity to earn money through gold mining and railroad construction

The "Black Cowboys" of nineteenth-century Texas are MOST associated with

• cattle drives from Texas and across the Great Plains.

• the relocation of American Indians in the American Southwest

• the founding of trading posts along the US-Mexican border.

• clearing and developing the Chisholm Trail for cattle.