American Yawp, Chapter 17: "The West" Quiz 2

How was the transcontinental railroad funded?

• Wealthy private business owners

• Public stock offerings

• Grants and loans from the federal government

• Bonds soiled to foreign investors

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What was the purpose of Western cattle drives?

• To avoid the cold of winter on the Great Plains and the heat of summer in Texas

• To bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad hubs

• To minimize the destruction of fields that resulted from over-grazing

• To avoid hostile Indian bands

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Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers.

• Mexican

• Native American

• African

• British-Canadian

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Which city served as the most important railroad hub, connecting the East and the West?

• St. Louis

• Chicago

• Cincinnati

• Memphis

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Which group received more land from the government?

• Homesteading families

• Railroad companies

• Both received nearly equal an equal amount

• Neither group received land from the government

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What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act?

• Splintered vast Native American reservations into individual family homesteads

• Determined the amount of land that would be given to each major railroad company

• Modified the original Homestead Act to increase land available to private settlers

• All of the above

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The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be called the Ghost Dance

• Dead relatives would return to Earth

• Drought would end and the buffalo would return

• Anglo settlers would disappear in an apocalyptic disaster

• All of the above

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Approximately what percent of early rodeo contestants were women?

• There are no indications of women participating in rodeos prior to 1928

• 1%

• 5%

• 10%

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What explains the popularity of Wild West shows?

• Tapped into anxieties about men losing their masculinity in the “softer” world of factory and office work

• Most Americans believed that Native cultures were disappearing, if not already gone, and felt a sense of urgency to see their dances and hear their songs

• The Old West seemed an uncomplicated place where the struggle between right and wrong was clear, unlike modern America which seemed increasingly morally complicated.

• All of the above

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What was Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis?

• An argument that European socialism had created an opportunity for the United States to create an international empire

• American culture was forged by the struggle between civilized settlers and savage frontier life, giving it a democratic and hardworking spirit

• The belief that Manifest Destiny was an immoral reading of scripture

• All of the above

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