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WorksheetsGilded Age Part 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of economy did the Sioux and Cheyenne cultures have?
a)
a. Nomadic
b)
b. Agrarian
c)
c Industrial
d)
d Matriarchal
2.
What animals were massively important for many Native American groups in the West and provided food, clothing, and shelter for their people?
a)
a.
Long
Horns
b)
b. Buffalos
c)
c. Beavers
d)
d. Wildcats
3.
Which type of person would most likely hold to the belief of Manifest Destiny in the late 1800s?
a)
a. A Shaman Native American
b)
b. A
Sioux chief
c)
a. A citizen of the USA moving to c. the Great Plains
d)
d. A British soldier stationed in Canada
4.
Which option below best explains how the introduction of horses and guns by Europeans to Native Americans impacted the cultures of the Native Americans by the late 1800s in the USA?
a)
a. The majority of Native Americans assimilated into European culture to gain the weapons and animals.
b)
b. Most Native Americans migrated to Mexico and abandoned the Great PlainsOption 2*
c)
c. Many Native American cultures transitioned from being agrarians to
nomads
d)
d. All of the above
5.
All of the following were motivations encouraging American citizens to go west in the late 1800s EXCEPT:
a)
a.
The
opportunity to mine for gold
b)
b. Access to natural resources
c)
c, The
availability of land
d)
d. The
opportunity to work in the new factories
6.
At ______________________________, US militia killed 150 people and most of those killed were women and children.
a)
a. the Battle of Antietam
b)
b. the Fetterman Massacre
c)
c. the Massacre at Sand Creek
d)
d. the Battle of Wounded Knee
7.
What option below best explains why Sitting Bull refused to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
a)
a, He felt that the Native Americans should get to return to the Southern portion of the USA
b)
b. He refused because the Treaty forbid the hunting of Buffalo.
c)
c. He would not sign it because he felt it interfered with the nomadic way of life.
d)
d. He was angry that Fetterman had killed Crazy Horse and wanted to keep fighting.
8.
Who led the Seventh Calvary at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
a)
George Custer
b)
William Fetterman
c)
Jack Wilson
d)
Nelson Miles
9.
What conflict was the last major battle of the Indian Wars?
a)
a. the Battle of Antietam
b)
b. the Fetterman Massacre
c)
c. the Massacre at Sand Creek
d)
d. the Battle of Wounded Knee
10.
If you were a supporter of the Populist movement, what occupation did you most likely serve as?
a)
a. banker
b)
b. conductor
c)
c. lawyer
d)
d. farmer
11.
What explanation below explains why Greenbacks began to drop in value after the Civil War?
a)
a. Greenbacks could only be exchanged for gold
b)
b. The railroad millionaires had placed all Greenbacks in powerful banks.
c)
c. Greenbacks could not be exchanged for gold.
d)
d. None of the above.
12.
What explanation below explains why railroad companies were able to charge high prices to farmers to ship their crops in the late 1800s?
a)
a. There was a great deal of competition between various railroad companies
b)
b. The railroads foreclosed on many farms and took the farmers’ properties
c)
c. The railroad companies had essentially no competition.
d)
d. They were able to charge high prices because the railroad companies owned the Grange.
13.
Who started the Patrons of Husbandry?
a)
a. Ralph Patron
b)
b. Rutherford B. Hayes
c)
c, Eugene V. Debs.
d)
d. Oliver Hudson Kelley
14.
What famous woman traveled and lectured to others to gain support for the Populist movement?
a)
a. Mary Elizabeth Lease
b)
b. Susan B. Anthony
c)
c. Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
d. Ida B. Wells.
15.
All of the following were goals of the Populist Party EXCEPT:
a)
a. Create an eight hour work day for common workers
b)
b. Allow governors of each state to appoint Senators to Congress
c)
c. Increase the money supply in the USA economy.
d)
d. Limit immigration into the USA.
16.
Politically, most citizens in the South were ___________________ and most citizens in the North were _________________ during the late 1800s.
a)
Republicans / Democrats
b)
. Democrats / Republicans
c)
Democrats / Populists
d)
Republicans / Libertarians
17.
Silverties wanted what economic policy?
a)
Railroads to reduce the amount of competition present in the market in the late 1800s
b)
The use of silver only to back money.
c)
The use of gold and silver to back money.
d)
The removal of railroad companies from the West.
18.
What option below explains why very wealthy individuals supported the gold standard?
a)
. Gold was the most abundant precious metal in the USA and was in plentiful supplies in the Midwest.
b)
Silver very difficult to excavate and created a dangerous environment for miners.
c)
The gold standard kept inflation from drastically increasing.
d)
All of the above.
19.
Who gave the famous, “Cross of Gold” speech?
a)
William Jennings Bryan
b)
William McKinley
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
William Hoard Taft
20.
Why did many big business owners support the presidential candidacy of William McKinley?
a)
He supported the gold standard
b)
He supported bimetallism
c)
He owned many railroad companies
d)
He was the last presidential candidate that actually served in the Civil War and was a military hero
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