During and after the Civil War, the Republican Congress implemented its economic vision for the United States by Show
a. subsidizing the transcontinental railroad. a. subsidizing the transcontinental railroad. Which Reconstruction-era politician created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism? a. William Seward a. William Seward The 1868 Burlingame Treaty achieved the American goal of a. annexing Hawaii. c. setting the terms of emigration for Chinese laborers. Which of the following events demonstrated the newfound international power of the United States in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War? a. Annexation of Panama and the Philippines b. Britain's damage payments to the United States How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century? a. They operated the American Railroad Corporation. b. Both granted public lands to private companies. The federal government's Civil War debt was paid off primarily through a. income taxes. b. tariff revenues. Republicans used which of the following arguments to justify high tariffs? a. Low prices of imported goods are beneficial for consumers. b. Protection against European-style industrial poverty is necessary. Which constitutional amendment did the Supreme Court use in the 1870s to the 1890s to protect the rights of corporations—even though it had been written to protect individual rights? a. First d. Fourteenth Which of the following countries was the first to convert to the gold standard? a. Germany c. Britain The United States adopted the gold standard in the 1870s for its currency because a. it hoped to encourage European investment
in the United States. a. it hoped to encourage European investment in the United States. In 1867, the United States bought Alaska from a. France. b. Russia. Which of the following was one of the reasons that the United States encouraged Chinese immigration after the Civil War? a. The United States needed to populate lands in the American West. c. Many Chinese were useful railroad workers and farm laborers in the West. Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862? a. It provided 160 acres of free land to qualifying white men. b. Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land. In the 1860s and 1870s, Nevada's Comstock Lode, Colorado's Rocky Mountains, and South Dakota's Black Hills were all known for a. sheep raising. c. mining. Who benefitted most from the General Mining Act of 1872, which allowed individuals who discovered minerals on federally owned land to work the claim and keep the proceeds? a. Homesteaders d. Powerful investors Which of the following developments made open ranching feasible on the Great Plains between the 1860s and the 1880s? a. The cultivation of new feed crops b. The availability of free land Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the post-Civil War western cattle boom? a. The boom aided the later development of agriculture by providing a good source of fertilizer. b. It attracted both investors seeking large profits and romantics drawn by the allure of the West. Why was it necessary for railroads and land speculators to promote settlement of the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century? a. The
U.S. government had not publicized the Homestead Act. b. Americans thought of the area as the Great American Desert. Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming? a. Advanced irrigation techniques b. Steel plows and other farm machinery Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879? a. Scandinavian settlers in Minnesota b. Blacks who migrated to Kansas What distinguished farming on the plains in the 1880s from frontier farming in America fifty or one hundred years earlier? a. Plains farmers raised cash crops that sold on the global market. a. Plains farmers raised cash crops that sold on the global market. Which of the following statements describes women's experience in the West in the late nineteenth century? a. The Homestead Act reflected the attitudes of the day by excluding women as homesteaders. b. Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota. Which of the following was a consequence of widespread settlement on the Great Plains after the Civil War? a. Improved
Indian relationships c. New rights and opportunities for many women Farmers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century often faced which of the following natural challenges that could easily destroy crops? a. Hurricanes c. Hailstorms Which of the following statements describes the agricultural technique known as dry farming? a. Dry farming was developed by Mormons in the area near the Great Salt Lake. b. It involved deep planting and quick harrowing after rainfalls. Why were late-nineteenth-century farms on the Great Plains much larger than eastern farms? a. Homesteaders were usually able to purchase more than the minimum allotment of land. b. Dry-farming techniques required about three hundred acres to support a family. The phrase "The largest, longest-run agricultural and environmental miscalculation in American history" refers to a. the plantation system. c. farming the Great Plains. The majority of white settlers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century viewed themselves as a. conquerors over the wilds of nature. a. conquerors over the wilds of nature. John Wesley Powell, in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878), famously stated that a. 160-acre homesteads would serve as the best way to settle and cultivate the Great Plains. c. massive cooperation under government control was the only way farming would succeed on the Great Plains. In 1872, which of the following was established by Congress as the first national park? a. Yellowstone a. Yellowstone Which Indian tribe was pursued 1,100 miles and forced to surrender just south of the Canadian border in 1877? a. Nez Perce a. Nez Perce What was the result of the first wildlife protection bill passed by Congress in 1874? a. President Grant vetoed the bill because he knew that killing the bison would
cripple Indian resistance. a. President Grant vetoed the bill because he knew that killing the bison would cripple Indian resistance. Which of the following was a reason the U.S. government elected to define small preserves of "uninhabited wilderness" in the 1860s and 1870s? a. To promote more business for the faltering railroad industry b. To contribute to the conquest of Native Americans in the West Which of the following was the dominant northern Plains Indian tribe? a. Iroquois d. Sioux The largest mass execution in American history took place as a result of a. Custer's last stand. b. the Dakota uprising. Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre? a. It was the last event in the Indian Wars. b. A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia. Which president refashioned U.S. Indian policy in the latter half of the nineteenth century? a. Buchanan d. Grant White reformers, such as those who founded the Indian Rights Association, advocated for a. the preservation of Indian culture. c. the idea that Indians had the innate capacity to become equal with whites. Reformers believed that the best way to save the Indians was through a. education. a. education. What was the purpose of Indian boarding schools in the late nineteenth century? a. To teach Native American children the ways of their ancient peoples c. To assimilate Native American children more easily into white culture Which of the following factors contributed to the failure of the Indian peace policy in the late nineteenth century? a. The extermination of the bison b. Rivalries among different Christian missionary groups. Why did Indians view reformers as just another white interest group? a. Indians did not really believe that white reformers cared about them. d. Reform groups sent mixed messages and made promises that were not kept. In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903), the Supreme Court a. extended citizenship rights to Indians. d. ruled that Congress could ignore all existing Indian treaties. The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended to a. exclude Japanese immigration into California. c. promote Indian assimilation by dividing their lands. As a result of the Dawes Severalty Act, Indian tribes a. lost almost two-thirds of their land. a. lost almost two-thirds of their land. Which of the following phenomena led the U.S. government to dismantle the Indian reservation system it had previously established? a. Indian resistance c. White land hunger Which Sioux leader led the forces that annihilated Colonel George A. Custer and his men on June 25, 1876? a. Geronimo c. Sitting Bull Following the Sioux victory at Little Big Horn, the U.S. government a. negotiated a treaty in which it made concessions to the Sioux. c. pursued the various bands of Sioux until they surrendered. Why did the Ghost Dance movement spread so quickly in Native American reservations in the late 1880s and early 1890s? a. Native American people thought the dance might end the long drought. d. The dance fostered native peoples' hope that they could drive away white settlers. Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee? a. The Plains Indians continued a grim guerrilla struggle against white domination, mounting many small attacks. b. The massacre of the Lakotas there stands as an indictment of U.S. Indian policy and western expansionism. What technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming?The changes in technology influenced the life of settlers on the Great Plains in the late 1800s. Inventions like the steel plow, reaping machine, spring-tooth harrow, grain drill, corn binder, etc reduced both labor and time.
Which of the following statements describes the agricultural technique known as dry farming?Which of the following statements describes the agricultural technique known as dry farming? It involved deep planting and quick harrowing after rainfalls.
Which of the following was a consequence of the removal of bison from the Great Plains following the Civil War?The destruction of the bison had two important consequences: It left the vast grasslands open to the herds of cattle moving north from Texas. Now cattle ranches appeared in the north. More importantly, though, it robbed the Plains Tribes of the one resource that allowed them to move across the plains.
What distinguished farming on the plains in the 1880s from frontier farming in America fifty or one hundred years earlier?What distinguished farming on the plains in the 1880s from frontier farming in America fifty or one hundred years earlier? A. Plains farmers raised cash crops that sold on the global market.
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Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening the Great Plains to farming?
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