Ch 15 Summative Quiz

Which of the following events demonstrated the newfound international power of the United States in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War?

• Annexation of Panama and the Philippines

• Annexation of Hawaii

• Monroe Doctrine

• Britain’s damage payments to the United States

The United States adopted the gold standard in the 1870s for its currency because

• gold was a more durable form of currency than greenbacks

• it hoped to encourage European investment in the United States

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  it sought economic development through a larger money supply

• geologists predicted huge gold strikes out West

Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?

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  It provided 160 acres of free land to qualifying white men

• Republican leaders hoped it would bring white settlers to the Pacific coastal regions

• Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land

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  Land speculators accumulated most of the available homesteads

Which of the following was a consequence of the removal of bison from the Great Plains following the Civil War?

• Bison removal discouraged the migration of homesteaders who viewed the Great Plains as largely infertile land

• Bison removal robbed the Sioux of their sustenance, making it easier to force them onto reservations

• Bison removal led to a mass exodus from boomtowns once primarily populated by bison hunters

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  Bison removal made possible the unprecedented extension of railroad and telegraph lines into the American southwest

Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming?

• Corporate development of drought-resistant grains

• Advanced irrigation techniques

• Steel plows and other farm machinery

• Scientific development of synthetic pesticides

Which of the following statements describes women’s experience in the West in the late nineteenth century?

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  Most women living in the West rejected the eastern ideal of domesticity

• The Homestead Act reflected the attitudes of the day by excluding women as homesteaders

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  Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota

• Women made up only a small percentage of the American population in the West

The majority of white settlers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century viewed themselves as

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  warriors who had to defeat the natives

• simple subsistence farmers with modest wants and needs

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  conquerors over the wilds of nature

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  responsible for preserving the environment for future generations

Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek massacre?

• John Chivington believed it was necessary because the Cheyenne were so hostile

• It killed most Cheyenne men, leaving women and children without support

• A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia

• It was the last event in the Indian Wars

White reformers, such as those who founded the Indian Rights Association, advocated for

• a reservation system as a means of saving Indian lives

• a continuation of tribal authority

• the idea that Indians had the innate capacity to become equal with whites

• the idea that Indians had the innate capacity to become equal with whites

Which of the following factors contributed to the failure of the Indian peace policy in the late nineteenth century?

• The federal government’s unwillingness to allocate funds

• Indians’ desire to assimilate into white society

• The extermination of the bison

• Rivalries among different Christian missionary groups