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Q1U3: Test -- Western Experience

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Class
Date
1.

What was the main purpose of the reservation system?

a)

to make the new transcontinental railroad safer to operate.

b)

to clear federal lands for settlement by railroads, ranchers, and farmers.

c)

to provide employment for Union troops and veterans after the Civil War.

d)

to make it easier for Indians to adjust into mainstream American culture.

2.

How did completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 encourage settlement of the American West?

a)

The railroad led to new discoveries of precious minerals.

b)

The railroad required immense quantities of iron and coal to build.

c)

The railroad frightened Indian tribes, who retreated to reservations.

d)

The railroad made it easier for ranchers and farmers to ship goods back east.

3.

Which of the following would geographers consider a “pull” factor that contributed to the settling of the Far West?

a)

The amount of farmland available for sale in the Midwest was limited.

b)

After the Depression of 1873, many craftsmen in Northeastern cities could not find work.

c)

The children of large farming families in Germany and Scandinavia often did not have enough land of their own.

d)

Only a decade after the California Gold Rush, new discoveries of gold and silver were made in Nevada, Colorado, and South Dakota.

4.

Which conflict is described in the newspaper above?

a)

Ranchers with herds on the open range opposed farmers with barbed fenced properties.

b)

American Indians opposed ranchers and homesteaders for control of the Great Plains.

c)

Different ranchers with cattle herds competed for grazing along the Chisholm Trail.

d)

Farmers on the Great Plains contested the shipping rates set by railroad companies.

5.

What would be the best title for this group of bulletin points?


· Used dry farming techniques

· Used barbed wire fences

· Burned cow and buffalo chips for fuel

· Windmills pumped water

· Steel plow used for tough soil

a)

Methods used by 49ers to stake claims

b)

Sources of conflict between ranchers and farmers

c)

How farmers adapted to conditions on the Great Plains

d)

How American Indians and western farmers cooperated

6.

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

a)

Federal Indians agents assisted Indians in growing crops on the reservation

b)

The federal government provided Indians with all the supplies needed.

c)

Indians went hungry while federal Indian agents grew extremely wealthy.

d)

The livestock raised on the Indian reservations were diseased.

7.

What created tensions between the Native Americans and the advancing American settlers?

a)

Broken treaties and promises.

b)

Severe drought.

c)

The high volume of immigration.

d)

The U.S. Civil War.

8.

People in the American West had different points of views about how land should be used. Which of the following does NOT show a conflict over land use from this time period?

a)

Farmers vs Ranchers over barbed-wire fence

b)

Miners vs Miners over gold strikes

c)

Indians vs Settlers over land and resources

d)

Railroad Companies vs Farmers over sale of land grants to private owners

9.

What do ALL of the following have in common?

_ Safety valve for unhappy workers in the NE

_Discovery of gold and silver in Colorado, Nevada, and Dakotas

_Advertisements promising superior farming conditions in the Great Plains

_Building transcontinental railroad

_Market for grain and cattle in the NE

_Passage of the Homestead Act provided cheap land

a)

Reasons for the Success of the Nebraska Land Rush

b)

Factors Contributing to the Settlement of the West

c)

Conditions Leading to the Spread of Cholera

d)

Sparks for the Second Industrial Revolution

10.

What did the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Pacific Railway Act demonstrate about the federal government?

a)

It was committed to settling the western territories.

b)

It was concerned about conserving natural resources.

c)

It was unwilling to move American Indians tribes to reservations.

d)

It was determined to break up business trusts harmful to free enterprise.

11.

“The Faithful performance of our promises is the first condition of a good understanding with the Indians. Especial care is recommended to provide for Indians settled on their reservations cattle and agricultural implements, to aid them in whatever efforts they may make to support themselves, and by the establishment and maintenance of schools to bring them under the control of civilized influences.”

- President Rutherford B. Hayes, 1878


According to this excerpt, President Hayes believed that it was important for the U.S. government to be on good terms with Native Americans and to do so by FIRST...

a)

establishing schools.

b)

fulfilling its pledges.

c)

providing cattle.

d)

providing farm tools.

12.

“Buffalo hunters have done more in the last two years, and will do more in the next year, to settle the…Indian question than the entire regular army has done in the last thirty years…for the sake of peace let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo are destroyed.”- General Philip Sherman, c.1872


What was the result of the process described in this quotation?

a)

Native American Indians were granted farmland under the Homestead Act

b)

The destruction of the buffalo helped drive Native American Indians onto reservations

c)

Many Native American Indians moved to Eastern cities to work in factories

d)

Most Native American Indians migrated to Canada to find new ways to earning a living

13.

In the period from 1860 to 1890, which experience was shared by most Native American Indians living in the western states?

a)

They maintained control of their traditional lands

b)

They benefitted economically from government incentives

c)

They became farmers and small business owners

d)

They were forced to live on reservations

14.

Which of the following is a contributing factor for the dramatic decrease as shown on the graph between 1870 and 1889?

a)

Increase in farmers in the West.

b)

Increase in ranchers in the West.

c)

Increase in miners in the West.

d)

Increase of Native American reservations in the West.

15.

Which of the following is a factor to the loss of land for the Native Americans from 1775 until 1992?

a)

The discovery of gold and silver in California, Nevada, Colorado and the Dakotas.

b)

Conflict and wars between the settlers and the Native Americans.

c)

Technology improvements especially steam-power.

d)

All the above are factors to the loss of Native American land.

16.

Sectional differences in the North and South developed in the United States largely because...

a)

the Federal Government adopted a policy of neutrality

b)

their economic conditions and interests varied

c)

only Northern were represented at the Constitutional Convention

d)

early Presidents favored urban areas over rural areas

17.

Read the following quote and answer the question that follows.

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”


What amendment does the excerpt above refer to?

a)

10th

b)

13th

c)

14th

d)

15th

18.

“How to readmit the South”

“How to help freedmen”

“Who should have the power”


What is the best title for the following headlines?

a)

Issues of Reconstruction

b)

The passage of the 13th Amendment

c)

The start of the Civil War

d)

Compromises of the Civil War

19.

“Laws permitting, or even requiring, the separation of the races do not place a badge of inferiority upon one group over another. Thus it is not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.” - Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)


What practice did this ruling uphold?

a)

job training for freedmen

b)

free public schooling for all races

c)

racial segregation in public places

d)

African American participation in politics

20.

What is the main message of this pol. cartoon?

a)

Opponents of Reconstruction were using violence to intimidate the freedmen.

b)

Different groups of Southerners were cooperating to rebuild the South after the war.

c)

The Ku Klux Klan and other private associations in the South were assisting the freedmen.

d)

The 14th Amendment protected the rights of freedmen despite the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.