APUSH Quizzes

The real winners from the gold and silver booms in the West were:

• Small miners

• Adventures

• Mining Companies

• Farmers

• Railroads

The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

• assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture

• recognize and preserve the tribal cultures of American Indians

• legally establish the communal nature of American Indian landholding

• restore to American Indians land seized unjustly

• remove all American Indians to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma)

The Ghost Dance, a religious movement that developed in the late nineteenth century, emerged from

which of the following?

• African Americans' efforts to cope with Jim Crow laws.

• Southerners' reaction to their loss of authority during Reconstruction.

• American Indians' distress over the loss of tribal authority.

• Western migrants' nostalgia for life in the East.

• East European immigrants' response to industrial life.

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) did which of the following?

• Denounced business combinations in restraint of trade.

• Sanctioned separate but equal public facilities for African Americans.

• Declared that the Fourteenth Amendment applied principally to the protection of corporations.

• Defined the Constitution as color-blind.

• Empowered Congress to cancel treaties with American Indian tribes unilaterally.

According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, a key factor in the development of American

individualism and democracy was

• Puritan theology

• Transcendentalism

• the American Revolution

• the Civil War

• the American frontier

Which of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887?

• It encouraged cooperative landownership among American Indians.

• American Indians in the West led attacks on United States forts.

• American Indians and settlers challenged each other over private land ownership.

• American Indians lost control of millions of acres of land.

• Most American Indians were relocated to the west of the Mississippi River.

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported

• elimination of convict leasing

• expansion of southern industry

• creation of southern literature critical of the Old South

• elimination of Jim Crow segregation

• limitation of West Indian migration to the United States

During the late nineteenth century, southern state governments used all the following methods to

restrict African American freedoms EXCEPT

• literacy tests

• Jim Crow laws

• poll taxes

• grandfather clauses

• restrictive housing covenants

The expansion into the west by settlers most strongly affected American Indians by

• increasing armed conflict with United States citizens and threatening traditional native ways of

  life.

• promoting economic growth through new lines of trade with previously isolated communities.

• encouraging the federal government to recognize American Indian sovereignty.

• reducing contact with white settlers due to the abandonment of old overland routes to the Pacific.

• promoting a positive environment where settlers and native tribes lived together on the land.

Which of the following was typical of agreement 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.

  life.

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

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

  land.

• They led to the abandonment of most reservations as American Indian families sought economic

  opportunities in urban areas.

• They generally lasted for long periods of time where settlers and American Indian tribes shared

  the land equally.