Question 1

The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of

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A)  capital. 
B)  labor. 
C)  cotton. 
D)  domestic help. 
E)  water. 
A)  capital. 
B)  labor. 
C)  cotton. 
D)  domestic help. 
E)  water. A

Question 2

Match each description with the item below.
-Wovoka

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A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen 
A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen D

Question 3

Some southern politicians condoned lynchings of African Americans, and southern whites used the practice to take the law into their own hands.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 4

Why is the conventional explanation that the buffalo disappeared from the plains due to overhunting by whites in the West more complicated than it seems?

Accepted Answer

A)  The buffalo never disappeared from the plains and simply evolved through their ability to escape detection by humans. 
B)  Whites actually hunted very few buffalo and focused solely on cattle drives due to better familiarity and the resources available. 
C)  Estimates of the buffalo population decline have since been shown to be greatly exaggerated based on improved algorithms. 
D)  It ignores the natural annual migration of buffalo to Mexico and Canada during the coldest and hottest months of the year. 
E)  Environmental factors, such as changes in climate and competition with other animals, also came into play. 
A)  The buffalo never disappeared from the plains and simply evolved through their ability to escape detection by humans. 
B)  Whites actually hunted very few buffalo and focused solely on cattle drives due to better familiarity and the resources available. 
C)  Estimates of the buffalo population decline have since been shown to be greatly exaggerated based on improved algorithms. 
D)  It ignores the natural annual migration of buffalo to Mexico and Canada during the coldest and hottest months of the year. 
E)  Environmental factors, such as changes in climate and competition with other animals, also came into play.

Question 5

Which of the following statements accurately describes foreign immigration in the West in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?

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A)  Immigration was uncommon in the West because immigrants needed to pass through eastern cities such as New York and could not afford to make the journey all the way across the country. 
B)  Chinese and Mexican immigrants traveled to the western United States in the largest numbers, with immigration from northern Europe having largely occurred in previous centuries. 
C)  Foreign immigration to the West plummeted to low levels after the Civil War because most settlements had been destroyed by the war and would need to be rebuilt. 
D)  While there were many immigrants in the West, different nationalities tended to settle in regions so far apart from one another that intermingling was rare and their cultures remained untouched. 
E)  Although immigrants formed a large part of the population in the West, discrimination was still pervasive, such as the denial of citizenship rights to Chinese immigrants. 
A)  Immigration was uncommon in the West because immigrants needed to pass through eastern cities such as New York and could not afford to make the journey all the way across the country. 
B)  Chinese and Mexican immigrants traveled to the western United States in the largest numbers, with immigration from northern Europe having largely occurred in previous centuries. 
C)  Foreign immigration to the West plummeted to low levels after the Civil War because most settlements had been destroyed by the war and would need to be rebuilt. 
D)  While there were many immigrants in the West, different nationalities tended to settle in regions so far apart from one another that intermingling was rare and their cultures remained untouched. 
E)  Although immigrants formed a large part of the population in the West, discrimination was still pervasive, such as the denial of citizenship rights to Chinese immigrants.

Question 6

Following the 1867 "Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes," Congress decided that the best way to end the Indian wars was to

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A)  send in the army, under men such as George Custer, to break the morale of the Indians. 
B)  systematically kill most of the buffalo because the fight over them had caused so much conflict. 
C)  "Americanize" the Indians by offering them an education at the white man's schools. 
D)  persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations. 
E)  allow Indians to follow old traditions such as the Ghost Dance. 
A)  send in the army, under men such as George Custer, to break the morale of the Indians. 
B)  systematically kill most of the buffalo because the fight over them had caused so much conflict. 
C)  "Americanize" the Indians by offering them an education at the white man's schools. 
D)  persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations. 
E)  allow Indians to follow old traditions such as the Ghost Dance.

Question 7

Match each description with the item below.
-Ulysses S. Grant

Accepted Answer

A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen 
A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen

Question 8

"Exodusters" migrated to the West often because

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A)  Radical Republican rule had been reinstated and they were worried about losing their southern plantations. 
B)  they were making their exodus from the South in search of a place devoid of racism and poverty. 
C)  there was an abundance of houses, stores, and water in the West, especially around Kansas homesteads. 
D)  southerners had passed legislation banishing them to live in the desert because they were still vengeful after the Civil War. 
E)  they wanted to spread their beliefs in Christianity and convert Native Americans from coast to coast.
). 
A)  Radical Republican rule had been reinstated and they were worried about losing their southern plantations. 
B)  they were making their exodus from the South in search of a place devoid of racism and poverty. 
C)  there was an abundance of houses, stores, and water in the West, especially around Kansas homesteads. 
D)  southerners had passed legislation banishing them to live in the desert because they were still vengeful after the Civil War. 
E)  they wanted to spread their beliefs in Christianity and convert Native Americans from coast to coast.
).

Question 9

Helen Hunt Jackson's book A Century of Dishonor was influential in describing the United States' exploitation of

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A)  African Americans. 
B)  Native Americans. 
C)  Chinese immigrants. 
D)  women. 
E)  eastern European immigrants. 
A)  African Americans. 
B)  Native Americans. 
C)  Chinese immigrants. 
D)  women. 
E)  eastern European immigrants.

Question 10

Due to high cotton prices, many sharecroppers were able to save money and buy farms.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

How did the South and West change by 1900?

Accepted Answer

By 1900, the South and West of the Unite

Question 12

In 1877, President Rutherford Hayes addressed the American approach to dealing with Native Americans, saying,

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A)  "No matter the cost, we must kill the Indian in order to save the man." 
B)  "I am indifferent toward the events of the Indian wars. Regardless of what occurred, we must move forward." 
C)  "If we kill the bison, we control the Indians and open the way to western expansion." 
D)  "Indians must be removed from tribes in order to progress as a nation." 
E)  "Many, if not most of our Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part." 
A)  "No matter the cost, we must kill the Indian in order to save the man." 
B)  "I am indifferent toward the events of the Indian wars. Regardless of what occurred, we must move forward." 
C)  "If we kill the bison, we control the Indians and open the way to western expansion." 
D)  "Indians must be removed from tribes in order to progress as a nation." 
E)  "Many, if not most of our Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part."

Question 13

In what ways did a "New South" emerge in the late nineteenth century?

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The "New South" emerged in the late nine

Question 14

Which of the following did Frederick Jackson Turner argue in his "frontier thesis"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Western settlement had essentially been one great failure, and the American public should be ashamed of the exploitation it had caused. 
B)  The only way for the United States to settle the frontier was through peaceful relations with the Native Americans. 
C)  American culture and identity developed from the ways in which the frontier shaped those who lived on it. 
D)  With the end of the western settlement, the nation needed a new frontier to explore and, therefore, should seek an overseas empire. 
E)  The American frontier was just a myth, and the people of the nation own all land communally. 
A)  Western settlement had essentially been one great failure, and the American public should be ashamed of the exploitation it had caused. 
B)  The only way for the United States to settle the frontier was through peaceful relations with the Native Americans. 
C)  American culture and identity developed from the ways in which the frontier shaped those who lived on it. 
D)  With the end of the western settlement, the nation needed a new frontier to explore and, therefore, should seek an overseas empire. 
E)  The American frontier was just a myth, and the people of the nation own all land communally.

Question 15

Match each description with the item below.
-John Marshall Harlan

Accepted Answer

A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen 
A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen

Question 16

As the price paid for raw cotton rose steadily over the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the average annual income of white southerners was double that of Americans outside the South.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Match each description with the item below.
-J. M. Chivington

Accepted Answer

A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen 
A) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution whose vision celebrated the redeemers 
B) led his people on a 1,300 mile march toward Canada, fleeing federal troops 
C) was the Supreme Court justice who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision 
D) initiated the Ghost Dance movement by sharing the content of visions he had experienced while ill 
E) cornered the supply of ingredients needed to make cigarettes and perfected their mass production
F)urged Congress to adopt more-progressive policies toward Native Americans but met major challenges
G)was a historian whose view of the frontier gripped the popular imagination in the nineteenth century
H)led the massacre of Native Americans at Sand Creek and resigned from the militia to avoid a military trial
I)led a crusade against lynching and was one of the most outspoken African American activists
J)was a Cheyenne chief whose surrender at Sand Creek was ignored by Colorado militiamen

Question 18

The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women

Accepted Answer

A)  more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts, as farming required a lot of help. 
B)  enjoy all the same legal protections, such as the ability to buy and sell property. 
C)  come to an understanding that women would play solely a subservient role on the frontier. 
D)  follow a very nomadic lifestyle, as farming and mining communities were so rare. 
E)  face the reality that there would be far more women than men due to dangerous men's work. 
A)  more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts, as farming required a lot of help. 
B)  enjoy all the same legal protections, such as the ability to buy and sell property. 
C)  come to an understanding that women would play solely a subservient role on the frontier. 
D)  follow a very nomadic lifestyle, as farming and mining communities were so rare. 
E)  face the reality that there would be far more women than men due to dangerous men's work.

Question 19

How did the federal government's post-Civil War policies in the West affect Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

The federal government's post-Civil War

Question 20

Which of the following is true of the Mississippi Plan?

Accepted Answer

A)  It guaranteed African Americans their voting rights in the face of intense voter suppression efforts and established Mississippi as a haven in the South for former slaves. 
B)  It stripped African Americans of their voting rights, especially those who moved around as tenant farmers or were illiterate, and set a pattern of disenfranchisement that other states would follow. 
C)  It followed the lead of several other southern states in guaranteeing black civil rights as part of recognizing the important role former slaves had played in making King Cotton possible. 
D)  It removed the poll tax because unlike other regulations that hurt just poor African Americans, it also hurt many whites, signaling the decline of the new wave of racism. 
E)  It granted confiscated land to African Americans because white southern legislators were desperate to see signs of African American financial success in order to ease the South's economic problems. 
A)  It guaranteed African Americans their voting rights in the face of intense voter suppression efforts and established Mississippi as a haven in the South for former slaves. 
B)  It stripped African Americans of their voting rights, especially those who moved around as tenant farmers or were illiterate, and set a pattern of disenfranchisement that other states would follow. 
C)  It followed the lead of several other southern states in guaranteeing black civil rights as part of recognizing the important role former slaves had played in making King Cotton possible. 
D)  It removed the poll tax because unlike other regulations that hurt just poor African Americans, it also hurt many whites, signaling the decline of the new wave of racism. 
E)  It granted confiscated land to African Americans because white southern legislators were desperate to see signs of African American financial success in order to ease the South's economic problems.

Exam 18: The New South and the New West

The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of

Match each description with the item below. -Wovoka

Some southern politicians condoned lynchings of African Americans, and southern whites used the practice to take the law into their own hands.

Why is the conventional explanation that the buffalo disappeared from the plains due to overhunting by whites in the West more complicated than it seems?

Which of the following statements accurately describes foreign immigration in the West in the last quarter of the nineteenth century?

Following the 1867 "Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes," Congress decided that the best way to end the Indian wars was to

Match each description with the item below. -Ulysses S. Grant

"Exodusters" migrated to the West often because

Helen Hunt Jackson's book A Century of Dishonor was influential in describing the United States' exploitation of

Due to high cotton prices, many sharecroppers were able to save money and buy farms.

How did the South and West change by 1900?

In 1877, President Rutherford Hayes addressed the American approach to dealing with Native Americans, saying,

In what ways did a "New South" emerge in the late nineteenth century?

Which of the following did Frederick Jackson Turner argue in his "frontier thesis"?

Match each description with the item below. -John Marshall Harlan

As the price paid for raw cotton rose steadily over the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the average annual income of white southerners was double that of Americans outside the South.

Match each description with the item below. -J. M. Chivington

The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women

How did the federal government's post-Civil War policies in the West affect Native Americans?

Which of the following is true of the Mississippi Plan?

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