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WorksheetsUnit 12
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which is true of European immigrants living locations in the 1800s?
They moved to the West in search of land as quickly as possible.
They lived in well established communities and tried to assimilate.
They lived in communities with similar religious and ethnic backgrounds.
They lived in communities that had similar religious but different ethnic backgrounds.
Which ideology stated that the United States had the right to intervene in Latin American nations as an "international police power"?
Roosevelt Corollary
Monroe Doctrine
Wilson's Moral Diplomacy
Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
Which concept led Americans to feel the need to bring its ideas to the “savages”?
Religion
Industrialism
Reconstruction
Social Darwinism
What event effectively ended Westward Expansion?
The admission of Arizona as a state
The end of slavery
The admission of California as a state
The defeat of the last Native American tribe
What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
It created specific areas for Chinese workers to live within a city.
It expanded the number of Chinese immigrants allowed entry into the United States.
It limited the number of Chinese immigrants seeking entry into the United States.
It set a minimum wage (payment) for Chinese workers.
What ideology was used to justify US intervention in the Mexican Revolution, especially between 1913-1917?
Roosevelt Corollary
Wilson's Moral Diplomacy
Taft's Dollar Diplomacy
Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policy
What event led to a flood of settlers moving into the Black Hills region in the 1870s?
Availability of former Native American lands
Discovery of gold
Discovery of silver
Religious revival
What was considered ‘Seward’s Folly’?
US purchase of Hawaii
US purchase of Oregon from Russia
US purchase of Alaska from Russia
US purchase of Washington DC
Where did the American Indian Wars end?
Fetterman Massacre
Cluster’s Last Stand
Battle of the Black Hills
Wounded Knee Massacre
According to the US government, what was the purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887?
Give Chinese workers a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle
Give African Americans a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle.
Give Native Americans a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle.
Give Hispanics a sense of land ownership and integrate an agricultural lifestyle.
Which of the following was NOT including in the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
Spain was given Mexico to compensate for the loss of Cuba.
The US gained the Pacific territory of Guam and the Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico.
The Philippines were sold to the United States for $20 million.
Cuba was free to seek its independence as a protectorate of the United States.
After Texas, New Mexico, and California became states, what happened to the Hispanic population?
Many Hispanics lost their land rights and some became migrant workers.
Many Hispanics moved to Spain.
Nothing different happened.
Most Hispanics were given more land by the US government.
What innovation contributed to the ending of ‘open range’ grazing?
Bridle
Barbed wire
Harvester
Steel Plow
Why did African Americans flee the South after the Civil War?
To participate in the mining of gold in the North
To become sharecroppers
Escape the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws
Better educational opportunities in the West
Which event directly contributed to the Great Sioux War of 1876?
The US government ordering the Lakota to return to reservations in the dead of winter.
The US government paying the Lakota for their lands.
The US government assassinating the Lakota chief.
The US government moving its army into Missouri.
Why did the United States government want to acquire Hawaii?
For access to all the sandy beaches
For political control since the government didn’t think a queen should be allowed to rule
For economic control over sugar, whaling, and other products
For social control so that the natives could be assimilated
After the Civil War, what did the United States focus on?
Finally ending slavery
Improving the governance of its territories
Closing its borders to immigrants
Discouraging settlement out West
As a contributing cause to the Spanish-American War, what Spanish diplomat wrote a letter that belittled President McKinley and the American people?
Enrique Iglesias
George Dewey
Pancho Villa
Enrique DeLome
How did ‘yellow journalism’ affect the public’s perception of the Spanish-American War?
It had no affect on the public’s perception.
It only reported well-known facts, which caused the public to be disinterested in the war.
It sensationalized the event, which created public outage.
It was written by college students, so only young adults followed the war.
Which of the following was a way to encourage Westward Expansion?
Land grants to encourage colleges of agriculture
Discouraging African Americans from moving West
Granting any amount of land settlers wanted
The Atlantic Railway Acts
Theodore Roosevelt often quoted an old proverb, "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”. How did he mean by the ‘big stick’?
Sharing of cultural attributes
Forced assimilation
Military intervention
Peace treaties
What was the purpose of the Open-Door Policy towards China?
All nations would have equal trading rights in China, and China's territorial integrity would be respected.
Only European nations would have equal trading rights in China, and China’s territorial integrity would be respected.
Only the US would have trading rights in China.
Only Asian nations would have equal trading rights in China, and China’s territorial integrity would be respected.
What was the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)?
It gave Panama to Nicaragua.
It gave the United States the right to build a military base in Columbia.
It opened Panama to trade with all nations.
It allowed the United States to use, occupy, and control a 10-mile wide canal zone in Panama.
Why was the United States interested in building a canal in Panama?
To protect trade routes
To build a military base
To increase transportation times
To maintain control of Panama
What was the Exodus of 1879?
Mass movement of Native Americans from states along Kansas to the Mississippi River region.
Mass movement of African Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas.
Mass movement of African Americans from states along Kansas to the Mississippi River region.
Mass movement of Native Americans from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas.
