Unit 3 Test Review

All of the following were effects of the government's policies on Native Americans EXCEPT:

Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.

• Native Americans were moved to reservations.

• Native Americans died from new diseases.

• Native Americans were paid well for their land.

• Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.

 

1876 - Sioux and Cheyenne forces wipe out an entire force of U.S. troops

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Red River War

Why was William Jennings Bryan an unprecedented presidential candidate?

• he campaigned directly to the people

• He raised a record amount of money

• He was the first farmer to run for President

• He wanted to keep the gold standard

 

What factor negatively affected open range cattle ranching?

• Cowboys were underpaid

• The price of beef dropped due to oversupply.

• Angry Ranchers campaigned for government intervention

• Earthquakes

What was the outcome of the El Paso Salt War?

• Chinese Americans’ were segregated in schools

• African Americans were kept in slavery and prevented from moving West

• Mexican Americans lost community access to the salt beds in the El Paso Valley

• Native Americans lost the ability to hunt buffalo in Texas

What did the Coinage Act of 1873 do?

• Backed U.S. money solely to gold

• Brought silver back into economic circulation

• Created the Quarter

• Removed the gold standard

Passed in 1862, this Act offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for five years, dig a well, and build a road. 

• Preemption Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Transcontinental Railroad Act

• Homestead Act

 

How many states became a part of the Union during this time period as a result of the mass movement of people to the West?

• 10

• 11

• 9

• 12

What was printed in newspapers that exposed political machines to the public and led to their downfall

• advertisements

• sensationalistic news

• political cartoons

• Fake News Articles

How did the Plains Indians’ use of the buffalo reflect their view of the resources that the land provided?

• They showed that they valued buffalo hunting as a sport by killing hundreds of buffalo at a time.

• They showed respect for natural resources by using every part of the buffalo for vital needs.

• They showed that they valued buffalo as a commodity by selling only their hides to European-Americans.

• They showed that the buffalo were not useful to them by driving them off the plains to start farms.