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26 The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Shari Anderson 22 questions

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  1. 1In post-Civil War America, what was the only reason that Indians voluntarily surrendered their ancestral land?
    1. AIndians chose to migrate further wast from their ancestral lands for superior farming
    2. BIndians received solemn promises from the federal government that they would be left alone and provided with food, clothing, and supplies on their remaining lands
    3. CIndians traded land to whites for rifles, blankets, food, and medicine
    4. DIndians were permitted to control the supply of food, buffalo, and other staples within the reservations
  2. 2What sparked a new round of warfare between the Sioux tribe and the U.S. Army in 1874?
    1. AThe massacre of U.S. Army Captain William Fetterman and his soldiers by a Sioux war party near the Bozeman Trail
    2. BThe start of an effort by Sioux Chief Crazy Horse to drive all whites from Montana and the Dakotas
    3. CAn expedition by U.S. Army Colonel George Custer to Little Big Horn, Montana
    4. DThe discovery of gold by Colonel George Custer on Sioux land in the Black Hills
  3. 3All of the following factors contributed to the ultimate surrender of the Plains Indians by the 1880's EXCEPT:
    1. Athe coming of the railroads
    2. Bthe successive waves of army troops, farmers, cattlemen, sheepherders, and settlers competing for and seizing Plains Indian lands, food and other staples, and natural resources
    3. Cthe failure of Plains Indians to display courage, cunning, and cruelty in warfare
    4. Dmedical ravaging of the Indian population by white people's disease
  4. 4In an effort to assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
    1. Adissolving many tribes as legal entities
    2. Babolishing tribal ownership of land
    3. Cpromising Indians U.S. citizenship in twenty-five years
    4. Doutlawing the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance
  5. 5What was the most important role played by the mining frontier?
    1. ABringing law and order the the West
    2. BAttracting substantial white population and wealth to the West
    3. CReducing the intensity of conflict between whites and Indians
    4. DEnsuring that the mining industry would remain in the hands of independent and small businessmen
  6. 6Which of the following was NOT a serious obstacle or difficulty encountered by families seeking to farm in the frontier West?
    1. AInsufficient quantities of acreage for productive farming in the rain scarce Great Plains offered for sale through the Homestead Act
    2. BLand grabbing promoters and speculators obtaining the most attractive land for farming
    3. CInhospitable soil and inadequate available technology for farming the prairie sod of the Great Plains
    4. DUnscrupulous corporations using dummy homesteaders to obtain the best land
  7. 7Among the following, which group was least likely to migrate to the cattle and farming frontier of the West?
    1. AEastern city dwellers
    2. BEastern farmers
    3. CAfrican Americans
    4. DMidwestern farmers
  8. 8Why were Americans disturbed when the superintendent of the census announced in 1890 that a stable frontier line was no longer discernible?
    1. AAmericans now knew that the Homestead Act would no longer provide them with adequate amounts of cheap, hospitable western lands to farm
    2. BAmericans believed that this declaration meant a renewal of the Indian wars
    3. CIt meant that a renewal of political tensions and warfare with Mexico was inevitable
    4. DThe promise of an endlessly open and vacant West, an element of American's mythological history from its beginnings, was now over
  9. 9How does the safety valve theory of frontier America explain the role of the West in dampening class conflict in the United States?
    1. AFree western land attracted many immigrants to the West who might otherwise have clogged urban eastern job markets and depressed the wages of eastern city dwellers
    2. BWestern farmers tended to be more politically conservative than those in the East and thus less apt to support populist or radical appeals to their economic conditions
    3. CWealthy western farmers hired many unemployed laborers from eastern cities to reduce unemployment in the East
    4. DWestern cities had less class conflict than those in the East
  10. 10Which of the following did late-nineteenth century farmers believe to be most responsible for their difficult economic circumstances:
    1. ALow tariff rates
    2. BOverpopulation
    3. CA deflated currency
    4. DAn inflated currency

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