APUSH Chapter 16

What did the United States purchase from Russia in 1868

Alaska

How did the United States persuade the Japanese to open trade relations

By wielding naval power to persuade the Japanese to sign a treaty

Which were the motives of Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts in writing the Dawes Severalty Act

He was eager for reform and hoped to improve the lives of Native Americans

What explains the popularity of the Ghost Dance movement in the 1880s

Its promise of Indian resurrection

Who was the one-armed Civil War veteran who wrote a famous book on western land conditions in 1879

John Wesley Powell

Which tribe openly refused to settle on a reservation in the mid-1870s

Lakota Sioux

Why was the General Mining Act of 1872 not useful in developing the West despite its generous grant of mineral resources to those who discovered them

Large-scale operations were needed to extract many minerals

Which of the following regions was the last that Native Americans ceded to the United States

The area of the North Dakota Territory to the east of the Missouri river

One critic called the Comstock Lode "the tomb of the forests of the Sierra." Why was that phrase apt

The mining industry ravaged the landscape

Why did new prairie homesteaders often spend their first winter in hillside dugouts rather than houses

The plains lacked the lumber for housing construction

What was a major difference between the settlement of the Great Plains and of mining camps and cattle ranches

There were proportionately more women on the plains

Why were Republicans so eager to fund the construction of a transcontinental railroad in the 1860s

They saw the failure to connect different regions via the railroad as one cause of the Civil War

What was the purpose of the Long Drive

To bring cattle from Texas to railroad towns so they could be shipped east for food

For what reason had states chartered corporations in the early nineteenth century

To fulfill specific public purposes

How did Native American traditions develop over time after the end of armed resistance

Traditional customs remained alive in private and secret settings

Who was the expansionist secretary of state during the 1860s that negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia

William Seward

Congress in 1864 set aside ten square miles of which valley for public use

Yosemite

What did Sitting Bull wish for his children by 1885

a "white" education

the United States decided to finance railroads through

private investors (unlike Europe)

What idea from Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" do historians reject today

white settlers claimed empty land

Why did Mormon women argue that giving them the right to vote in Utah Territory would benefit the Mormon community

because they would out-vote the non-Mormon miners

What distinguished the story of "Deadwood Dick" whose stories were published as The Life and Adventures of Nat Love in 1907

he was born into slavery in Tennessee

What ended the Long Drive of cattle from Texas to Missouri in the 1870s

railroads

Which technology permitted homesteaders in the West to plant crops in the prairie in the 1860s and 1870s

steel plows

Which act of 1887 led to the break-up and sale of Indian reservation lands

the Dawes Severalty Act

Which trail was a private road under army protection that served as the main route into Montana in the 1860s and 1870s

the bozeman trail

What federal department did Congress create in 1862 to conduct research and provide advice to farmers

the department of agriculture

What was the name of the Native American religious movement that drew upon and combined significant Christian and native elements

the ghost dance

Exodusters were blacks who left which region to seek a better life in the 1870s

the south

Why did William Seward urge Congress to purchase refueling stations in the Pacific and the Caribbean

to support growing trade with Asia and Latin America