Question 1

In Lone Wolf v.Hitchcock (1903),the Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

A)  extended citizenship rights to Indians. 
B)  granted all male Indians the right to vote. 
C)  upheld the constitutionality of the Dawes Severalty Act. 
D)  ruled that Congress could ignore all existing Indian treaties. 
A)  extended citizenship rights to Indians. 
B)  granted all male Indians the right to vote. 
C)  upheld the constitutionality of the Dawes Severalty Act. 
D)  ruled that Congress could ignore all existing Indian treaties.

Question 2

Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee?

Accepted Answer

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. 
C)  Indians remained a large minority in South Dakota and Oklahoma,averaging 25 percent of the population. 
D)  It illustrated the U.S.government's faulty approach to Native Americans and led it to abandon the Dawes Plan immediately. 
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. 
C)  Indians remained a large minority in South Dakota and Oklahoma,averaging 25 percent of the population. 
D)  It illustrated the U.S.government's faulty approach to Native Americans and led it to abandon the Dawes Plan immediately.

Question 3

Answer the following  questions :
-transcontinental railroad

Accepted Answer

A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. 
A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300.

Question 4

Following the Sioux victory at Little Big Horn,the U.S.government

Accepted Answer

A)  negotiated a treaty in which it made concessions to the Sioux. 
B)  withdrew from the area and left the Sioux alone. 
C)  pursued the various bands of Sioux until they surrendered. 
D)  demonstrated a new respect for the Sioux and other tribes. 
A)  negotiated a treaty in which it made concessions to the Sioux. 
B)  withdrew from the area and left the Sioux alone. 
C)  pursued the various bands of Sioux until they surrendered. 
D)  demonstrated a new respect for the Sioux and other tribes.

Question 5

Answer the following  questions :
-Crime of 1873

Accepted Answer

A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. 
A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300.

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-Yellowstone National Park

Accepted Answer

A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. 
A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300.

Question 7

John Wesley Powell,in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878),famously stated that

Accepted Answer

A)  160-acre homesteads would serve as the best way to settle and cultivate the Great Plains. 
B)  individual farmers,not the federal government,should be responsible for their own water needs. 
C)  massive cooperation under government control was the only way farming would succeed on the Great Plains. 
D)  the Mormon experiment in Utah was doomed to fail because the land in that territory was totally dry. 
A)  160-acre homesteads would serve as the best way to settle and cultivate the Great Plains. 
B)  individual farmers,not the federal government,should be responsible for their own water needs. 
C)  massive cooperation under government control was the only way farming would succeed on the Great Plains. 
D)  the Mormon experiment in Utah was doomed to fail because the land in that territory was totally dry.

Question 8

How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  They operated the American Railroad Corporation. 
B)  Both granted public lands to private companies. 
C)  They secured privately owned land through eminent domain. 
D)  They bailed out failing railroad companies with federal funds. 
A)  They operated the American Railroad Corporation. 
B)  Both granted public lands to private companies. 
C)  They secured privately owned land through eminent domain. 
D)  They bailed out failing railroad companies with federal funds.

Question 9

What distinguished farming on the plains in the 1880s from frontier farming in America fifty or one hundred years earlier?

Accepted Answer

A)  Plains farmers raised cash crops that sold on the global market. 
B)  Plains farmers used immigrant laborers rather than slaves. 
C)  Farmers on the plains focused on livestock rather than crops. 
D)  Farmers on the plains received federal crop subsidies. 
A)  Plains farmers raised cash crops that sold on the global market. 
B)  Plains farmers used immigrant laborers rather than slaves. 
C)  Farmers on the plains focused on livestock rather than crops. 
D)  Farmers on the plains received federal crop subsidies.

Question 10

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended to

Accepted Answer

A)  exclude Japanese immigration into California. 
B)  place Indians on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. 
C)  promote Indian assimilation by dividing their lands. 
D)  encourage ethnic diversity within large industries. 
A)  exclude Japanese immigration into California. 
B)  place Indians on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. 
C)  promote Indian assimilation by dividing their lands. 
D)  encourage ethnic diversity within large industries.

Question 11

Answer the following  questions :
-Homestead Act

Accepted Answer

A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. 
A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300.

Question 12

Which Reconstruction-era politician created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism?

Accepted Answer

A)  William Seward 
B)  Ulysses Grant 
C)  Thaddeus Stevens 
D)  Edwin Stanton 
A)  William Seward 
B)  Ulysses Grant 
C)  Thaddeus Stevens 
D)  Edwin Stanton

Question 13

In the 1860s and 1870s,Nevada's Comstock Lode,Colorado's Rocky Mountains,and South Dakota's Black Hills were all known for

Accepted Answer

A)  sheep raising. 
B)  cattle grazing. 
C)  mining. 
D)  frontier farming. 
A)  sheep raising. 
B)  cattle grazing. 
C)  mining. 
D)  frontier farming.

Question 14

Answer the following  questions :
-gold standard

Accepted Answer

A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. 
A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300.

Question 15

Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879?

Accepted Answer

A)  Scandinavian settlers in Minnesota 
B)  Blacks who migrated to Kansas 
C)  Mexicans who immigrated to the United States 
D)  Chinese who were forced to leave California 
A)  Scandinavian settlers in Minnesota 
B)  Blacks who migrated to Kansas 
C)  Mexicans who immigrated to the United States 
D)  Chinese who were forced to leave California

Question 16

For this question,refer to the following map,"Expansion of the Railroad System,1870-1890."   Which of the following was a major cause of the historical process depicted on the map above?

Accepted Answer

A)  Government policies promoting economic development 
B)  White people seeking religious refuge in the West 
C)  Corruption in government,especially as it related to big business 
D)  An increase in international and internal migrations 
A)  Government policies promoting economic development 
B)  White people seeking religious refuge in the West 
C)  Corruption in government,especially as it related to big business 
D)  An increase in international and internal migrations

Question 17

Why did Indians view reformers as just another white interest group?

Accepted Answer

A)  Indians did not really believe that white reformers cared about them. 
B)  They suspected that white reform organizations were deceitful. 
C)  Indians did not understand the goals and the efforts of the white reform groups. 
D)  Reform groups sent mixed messages and made promises that were not kept. 
A)  Indians did not really believe that white reformers cared about them. 
B)  They suspected that white reform organizations were deceitful. 
C)  Indians did not understand the goals and the efforts of the white reform groups. 
D)  Reform groups sent mixed messages and made promises that were not kept.

Question 18

White reformers,such as those who founded the Indian Rights Association,advocated for

Accepted Answer

A)  the preservation of Indian culture. 
B)  a reservation system as a means of saving Indian lives. 
C)  the idea that Indians had the innate capacity to become equal with whites. 
D)  a continuation of tribal authority. 
A)  the preservation of Indian culture. 
B)  a reservation system as a means of saving Indian lives. 
C)  the idea that Indians had the innate capacity to become equal with whites. 
D)  a continuation of tribal authority.

Question 19

Which Indian tribe was pursued 1,100 miles and forced to surrender just south of the Canadian border in 1877?

Accepted Answer

A)  Nez Perce 
B)  Cheyenne 
C)  Sioux 
D)  Dakota 
A)  Nez Perce 
B)  Cheyenne 
C)  Sioux 
D)  Dakota

Question 20

Answer the following  questions :
-"rain follows the plow"

Accepted Answer

A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300. 
A) The railway line completed on May 10,1869,that connected the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines,enabling goods to move by railway from the eastern United States all the way to California. 
B) A tax or duty on foreign producers of goods coming into or imported into the United States;these tariffs gave U.S.manufacturers a competitive advantage in America's gigantic domestic market. 
C) An 1868 treaty that guaranteed the rights of U.S.missionaries in China and set official terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to work in the United States. 
D) An 1877 Supreme Court case that affirmed that states could regulate key businesses,such as railroads and grain elevators,if those businesses were "clothed in the public interest." 
E) The practice of backing a country's currency with its reserves of gold.In 1873 the United States,following Great Britain and other European nations,began converting to this practice.
F)A term used by those critical of an 1873 law directing the U.S.Treasury to cease minting silver dollars,retire Civil War-era greenbacks,and replace them with notes backed by the gold standard from an expanded system of national banks.
G)The 1862 act that gave 160 acres of free western land to any applicant who occupied and improved the property.This policy led to the rapid development of the American West after the Civil War;facing arid conditions in the West,however,many homesteaders found themselves unable to live on their land.
H)Authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862,these educational institutions were public universities founded to broaden educational opportunities and foster technical and scientific expertise.These universities were funded by the Morrill Act,which authorized the sale of federal lands to raise money for higher education.
I)An unfounded theory that settlement and farming of the Great Plains caused an increase in rainfall.
J)African Americans who walked or rode out of the Deep South following the Civil War,many settling on farms in Kansas in hopes of finding peace and prosperity.
K)Established in 1872 by Congress,this protected land was the United States's first national park.
L)A federal bureau established in 1871 that made recommendations to stem the decline in wild fish.Its creation was an important step toward wildlife conservation and management.
M)The November 29,1864 massacre of more than a hundred peaceful Cheyennes,largely women and children,by John M.Chivington's Colorado militia.
N)A massacre in December 1866 in which 1,500 Sioux warriors lured Captain William Fetterman and eighty soldiers from a Wyoming fort and attacked them.With the Fetterman massacre the Sioux succeeded in closing the Bozeman Trail,the main route into Montana.
O)A 1903 Supreme Court ruling that Congress could make whatever Indian policies it chose,ignoring all existing treaties.
P)The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty (individual ownership of land)by dividing reservations into homesteads.The law was a disaster for native peoples,resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law's passage.
Q)The 1876 battle begun when American cavalry under George Armstrong Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux,Arapaho,and Cheyenne Indians who resisted removal to a reservation.Custer's force was annihilated,but with whites calling for U.S.soldiers to retaliate,the Native American military victory was short-lived.
R)Religion of the late 1880s and early 1890s that combined elements of Christianity and traditional Native American religion.It fostered Plains Indians' hope that they could,through sacred dances,resurrect the great bison herds and call up a storm to drive whites back across the Atlantic.
S)The 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians by American cavalry in South Dakota.Sent to suppress the Ghost Dance,soldiers caught up with fleeing Lakotas and killed as many as 300.

Exam 15: Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

In Lone Wolf v.Hitchcock (1903),the Supreme Court

Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee?

Answer the following questions : -transcontinental railroad

Following the Sioux victory at Little Big Horn,the U.S.government

Answer the following questions : -Crime of 1873

Answer the following questions : -Yellowstone National Park

John Wesley Powell,in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878),famously stated that

How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century?

What distinguished farming on the plains in the 1880s from frontier farming in America fifty or one hundred years earlier?

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended to

Answer the following questions : -Homestead Act

Which Reconstruction-era politician created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism?

In the 1860s and 1870s,Nevada's Comstock Lode,Colorado's Rocky Mountains,and South Dakota's Black Hills were all known for

Answer the following questions : -gold standard

Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879?

For this question,refer to the following map,"Expansion of the Railroad System,1870-1890." Which of the following was a major cause of the historical process depicted on the map above?

Why did Indians view reformers as just another white interest group?

White reformers,such as those who founded the Indian Rights Association,advocated for

Which Indian tribe was pursued 1,100 miles and forced to surrender just south of the Canadian border in 1877?

Answer the following questions : -"rain follows the plow"

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Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

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Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

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An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

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The World at War, 1937-1945

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Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

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Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

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