Us History Test 3

In 1887, the Dawes Severalty Act was passed to

. move Native Americans onto western reservations.

Dawes Severalty Act

An act that broke up Indian reservations and distributed land to individual households. Leftover land was sold for money to fund U.S. government efforts to "civilize" Native Americans.

The mining frontier played a vital role in which of the following? a. Enabling the government to go off the gold standard b. Attracting the first substantial white population to the West Selected:c. Ensuring that the mining industry would remain in the hands of independent, small operations. This answer is incorrect. d. Reducing the bitter conflict between the Indians and whites in the West e. Bringing law and order to the West.

B. Attracting the first substantial white population to the West

Sitting Bull

Chief of the Sioux Indians who had surrendered his people to the U.S. Army after the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Which of the following was the most significant source of the conflict described in this excerpt?

Competition for land and resources.

What steps did farmers take to adapt to ecological conditions west of 100th meridian line depicted on this map?

Dry farming, new strains of plants, and irrigation

Which of the following was true of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 ?

It eliminated most tribal land ownership in favor of ownership by individuals.

Which of the following contributed most to the process described in the excerpt?

Legislation that facilitated the distribution of western land

Peace Policy

Refers to President Ulysses Grant's failed attempt in 1868 to end the Plains Indian Wars by enlisting Christian missionaries to supervise Indian reservations.

What ended the reservation system

The Dawes Severalty Act.

Red Cloud

The Lakota Indians famed strategist responsible for the ambush of Captain William Fetterman's command of eighty-one soldiers and civilians in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains.

Which of the following was a cause of the Battle of Wounded Knee?

The Sioux refused to give up their practice of the "Ghost Dance."

What did the events that took place between Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and the federal government illustrate about U.S. - Native American relations in the late nineteenth century?

Violent conflicts continued to be waged between the Native Americans and the government.

What frontier towns were at the end of cattle trails from Texas? Selected:a. Atchison, Kansas; Greeley, Colorado; and Bozeman, Montana b. Abilene, Kansas; Sedalia, Missouri; and Cheyenne, Wyoming c. Tulsa, Oklahoma; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Denver, Colorado d. Kansas City, Kansas; Pueblo, Colorado; and Laramie, Wyoming e. Topeka, Kansas; Omaha, Nebraska; and Casper, Wyoming

b. Abilene, Kansas; Sedalia, Missouri; and Cheyenne, Wyoming

Frederick Jackson Turner

With the "closing" of the frontier, he was inspired to write one of the most influential essays ever written about American history, The Signigficance of the Frontier in American History. His essay was also referred to as his "Frontier Thesis." This answer is correct.

Source: based on information in Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011). Which of the following developments helps to explain the change in agriculture depicted in the graph? CB a. The extraction of western resources led to the growth of new towns and cities that demanded agricultural goods. Selected:b. Increased migration from the West for industrial jobs in eastern cities led to increased consumption of agricultural goods. This answer is incorrect. c. Farmers' cooperative organizations reduced consolidation in the agricultural markets in order to increase production. d. The growth of an internal slave trade provided an enlarged workforce whose labor helped increase agricultural production.

a. The extraction of western resources led to the growth of new towns and cities that demanded agricultural goods.

Railways played a role in the development of the agricultural west in the late-nineteenth-century by doing all the following except: a. Transporting natural resources like timber to the region This is the correct answer. Selected:b. Making it easier to get crops from the region to market c. Selling land to Americans and European immigrants

a. Transporting natural resources like timber to the region

Which of the following statements was not true of the 1862 Homestead Act? a. Farmers were given ownership of land after living on it for five years. b. Land speculators were effectively kept from abusing the act. c. It provided a system for the federal government to provide land directly to settlers. d. It made land available to citizens and to immigrants who planned to become citizens. :e. To claim land, farmers had to build a dwelling and cultivate the land.

b. Land speculators were effectively kept from abusing the act.

John Wesley Powell

c. Geologist and explorer of the Colorado River's Grand Canyon and later director of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Which of the following describes the Homestead Act? Selected:a. It changed the way land was distributed. Before the act, public land had been given away to encourage a rapid filling of empty spaces; now it was sold primarily for revenue. This answer is incorrect. b. It was taken advantage of by only about ten thousand families. c. It allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land (a quarter-section) by living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30. d. It marked a continuation of previous government policy. e. It proved highly successful in the arid West once appropriate irrigation techniques were discovered.

c. It allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land (a quarter-section) by living on it for five years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30.

Ultimately, the United States would not take the advice of Chief Joseph, but instead would

confine American Indians to reservations and promoting assimilation.

Which of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 ? CB a. Most American Indians were relocated to the west of the Mississippi. b. It encouraged cooperative landownership among American Indians. c. American Indians in the West led attacks on United States forts. d. American Indians lost control of millions of acres of land. Selected:e. American Indians and Whites challenged each other over landownership in range wars.

d. American Indians lost control of millions of acres of land.

In its report for 1890, the United States Census Bureau indicated that CB Selected:a. industrialization was closing the gap in wealth between rich and poor b. infant mortality was no longer a serious problem c. Boston was the second largest city in the United States d. the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas e. the United States had more Catholics than Protestants

d. the American frontier could no longer be distinguished from settled areas

From the 1880's to the beginning of the New Deal, the dominant American Indian policy of the United Stated government sought to CB a. strengthen traditional tribal authority b. encourage American Indian emigration to Canada Selected:c. relocate all American Indians to the Oklahoma territory d. encourage American Indians to preserve their languages and religions e. break up tribal landholdings

e. break up tribal landholdings