U.S.H2 Midterm THQs (Ch. 11-13)

False

(T/F) After losing many of his people in a series of battles, Chief Joseph and the remaining Nez Perce under him were exiled to California in 1877.

True

(T/F) As the election of 1892 approached, leaders of the People's Party decided to make the graduated income tax a focus of their campaign.

True

(T/F) By embracing Populism and its rural base in the election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan and the Democrats won the southern and most of the western states.

True

(T/F) Chicago, with limited space, had to build up and not out, and thus invented the skyscraper.

True

(T/F) Cooperatives' efforts to regulate railroad rates caused the railroads to refuse to lay more track.

False

(T/F) During the last half of the 1800s, the wealthiest families established fashionable districts in the country, abandoning the city to the middle-class and lower classes.

False

(T/F) Dwight L. Moody believed the best way to help the poor was to proved them with services.

True

(T/F) Examples of similarities in the groups of Plains Indians are that they lived in extended family networks and had an intimate relationship with nature.

True

(T/F) In the 1860s, tensions began to rise between the Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples and the miners who had flocked to Colorado in search of gold and silver, leading to an incident called the Sand Creek Massacre.

False

(T/F) In the late 1800s, monetary inflation- the opposite of deflation- hurt American farmers.

False

(T/F) Jane Addams helped Lillian Wald to found the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.

False

(T/F) Lester Frank Ward argued that competition in the marketplace could cure poverty much more efficiently than could government.

True

(T/F) Lieutenant Colonel George A. Cluster underestimated the fighting capabilities of the Lakota and Cheyenne.

False

(T/F) Most working-class families had to rely on just one income to pay all of their expenses.

False

(T/F) Rural areas were ahead of cities in the movement to establish public schools for children.

False

(T/F) Tammany Hall, the corrupt boss of New York's political machine during the 1860s and 1870s, was eventually arrested for corruption and sent to prison in 1874.

False

(T/F) The Dawes Act succeeded in achieving its goals of assimilating Native Americans into American society as landowners and citizens.

True

(T/F) The People's Party nominated their first candidate for president in 1892.

True

(T/F) The biggest threats for the residents of cities were the risks of pollution and disease.

c) broken treaties

A serious toll was taken on Native Americans from the advancing American settlers, forced movement, and a) drought b) immigration c) broken treaties d) the Civil War

buffalo

For centuries the Great Plains had been home to vast herds of ____________ that grazed on the prairie grasses and provided food, clothing, and shelter to Native American groups.

peasants

Many people in Russia who were __________ suffered from land shortages, and came to the U.S. for a better life.

False

Mining usually began as a big business but became a venture for rugged individualists when deposits started to dry up.

sodbusters

More than a few ___________, as those who plowed the soil on the Plains were called, eventually lost their homesteads through the combined effects of drought, wind erosion, and overuse of the land

False

Most of the cowboys in the early years of the cattle drives were former fur traders escaping the boomtowns of the mountains in the West.

b) Civil Rights Act of 1875

When the Supreme Court overturned the _________, it set the stage for legalized segregation. a) Fifteenth Amendment b) Civil Rights Act of 1875 c) Bill of Rights d) Plessy v. Ferguson decisions

a) scorching summers

Which of the following were hardships that early settlers on the Great Plains faced? a) scorching summers b) too many trees c) dangerous factories d) crowded cities

True

While many Americans headed to the Rocky Mountains to mine gold and silver after the Civil War, others began building vast cattle ranches on the Great Plains.

d) Indian Peace Commission

Who proposed creating two large reservations in 1867, one for the Sioux and another for the southern Plains Indians? a) George A. Cluster b) General Nelson Miles c) Chief Little Crow d) Indian Peace Commission

Chief Joseph

leader of the Nez Perce people

b) also rose

When immigration form eastern Europe rose in the first decade of the 1900s, immigration from western Europe __________. a) stayed level b) also rose c) dropped

Charles W. Macune

he stated a farmers' organization which increased the price of cotton in some places

True

When sheep herders moved their herds onto the range and when farmers settles there, blocking access to the rivers, "range wars" broke out among competing groups

Germany

immigrants from here came to avoid the draft; Jews not listed as coming from here

b) long drive

Although only fraction of the herds survived when ranchers rounded up their cattle in 1866, it was the first _____________. a) wagon trail b) long drive c) range war d) open range

b) warning of society's hidden problems

By calling their era the "Gilded Age," Mark Twain and Charles Warner were _________. a) describing how wonderful things were b) warning of society's hidden problems c) inspiring people to mine for gold

b) Leadville

Deep deposits of minerals led to the creation of a legendary boomtown in the Colorado mountains, known as ____________. a) Comstock b) Leadville c) Virginia City d) Pike's Peak

d) Ghost Dance

Defying the orders of the government agent at the reservation, the Lakota continued to perform a ritual called the a) Peace Dance b) Bighorn Dance c) Buffalo Dance d) Ghost Dance

d) barbed wire

Eventually, and after considerable loss of life, the open range was largely fenced off with a new invention called ____________. a) electric fences b) range barriers c) lariats d) barbed wire

c) Oklahoma

Exodusters settled in the state of Kansas and _________. a) Kansas b) Arkansas c) Oklahoma

a) two

How many Populists were acted to the U.S. Senate in 1890? a) two b) ten c) eight

a) Italy

Immigrants from _______ helped to build the railroads. a) Italy b) Ireland c) Russia

b) silver ore

In 1859, when prospector Henry Comstock staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada, the sticky blue-gray mud there turned out to be __________. a) lead b) silver ore c) fool's gold d) iron ore

a) Colored Farmers' National Alliance

In 1886, African American farmers formed the _________. a) Colored Farmers' National Alliance b) Black People's Party c) African American Populist Part d) Exodusters

c) Angel Island

In the 1910s, the processing center for immigrants on the West Coast was at _______. a) Catalina Island b) Ellis Island c) Angel Island

165,000

In the time period cover in the section, about this many Russians settled in New York: ____________.

c) with their adult children

In this time period, most elderly Americans lived ________. a) by themselves b) in old ages homes c) with their adult children

d) nomads

Native Americans who roamed vast distances were considered a) miners b) trappers c) farmers d) nomads

c) Ireland

One leading anti-immigrant was himself from __________. a) China b) California c) Ireland

False

Operations in mining towns in Colorado spurred the building of railroads through the Rocky Mountains and transformed Virginia City, the supply point for the mining areas, into the second largest city in the West after San Francisco.

coal

Railroads brought lumber and brick to replace sod as a building material and _______ as fuel.

Protestants

Romanists suffered form discrimination inflicted on them by this religious group ___________.

False

Scott Joplin was an African American composer who was well-known for his hit song, "King of Ragtime."

b) the government

Settlement of the Great Plains was promoted by the railroads and supported by a) plow manufacturers b) the government c) cattle ranchers d) the mining industry

c) the U.S. Senate

The "Pendleton" who created the Pendleton Act was a member of ___________. a) the U.S. House of Representatives b) a major labor union c) the U.S. Senate

b) William Jennings Bryan

The Farmer's Alliance nominee for president in 1896 was _________. a) William McKinley b) William Jennings Bryan d) James B. Weaver

d) Rocky Mountains

The Great Plains extend westward to the a) Mississippi River b) Pacific Ocean c) Guld of Mexico d) Rocky Mountains

c) hunting grounds

The Lakota Sioux fought to keep control of their a) roads and bridges b) religious shrines c) hunting grounds d) farm fields

b) Populists

The People's Party was also known as the a) Sodbusters b) Populists c) Stalwarts d) Grange

c) $445

The average income for an industrial worker in this era was about ________ a year. a) $500 b) $360,000 c) $445

1902

The law banning Chinese people from immigrating to the U.S. was made permanent in the year ____________.

d) harvesting wheat

Threshing machines were used for a) planting crops b) improving irrigation c) clearing homesteads d) harvesting wheat

a) a clergyman

To find out how immigrants were treated, _________ once pretended to be one. a) a clergyman b) a journalist c) a private investigator

d) racism

To win the votes of poor whites, Democratic leaders in the South began appealing to __________. a) diversity b) Northerners c) Populists d) racism

drop

Two problems hurt the farmers in the late 1880s and 1890s: a glut of wheat on the world market caused prices to ______, and the weather cycle changed, beginning a prolonged drought.

d) mining

What brought the first wave of settlers to the West?

c) Great American Desert

What name did the explorers of the Great Plains give the area? a) Indian Territory b) Unfit Frontier c) Great American Desert d) Wheat Belt

cotton

Wheat became as important to the Great Plains as _______ was to the South.

b) Stalwarts

When President Rutherford B. Hayes attacked the practice of patronage, his opponents were called ___________. a) Halfbreeds b) Stalwarts c) Mugwumps d) Pendletons

a) Elisha Otis

Without the work of ____________, tall buildings would not have become practical. a) Elisha Otis b) John Roebling c) Louis Sullivan

"grandfather clause"

You could be exempt from paying a tex, when registering to vote, if you had an ancestor who was allowed to vote in 1867; this was called the ____________.

John Bull

a symbol of Great Britain

homestead

a tract of public land available for settlement

Potter Palmer

built a castle in Chicago

hydraulic mining

declared a "public and private nuisance"

John Roebling

designed the longest suspension bridge in the world

Stephen Long

explored the Great Plains in 1819

annuities

government payments to reservation dwellers

buffalo

main source of food for many Native Americans

Ireland

many Americans considered immigrants form here to be lazy

Henry Ward Beecher

minister who thought that God created evolution

bonanza farms

often brought their owners big profits

Thomas Eakins

once painted a red umbrella

dry farming

planting seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture for them to grow

placer mining

process of extracting shallow deposits of ore largely by hand

Wheat Belt

productive farm area that began at the eastern edge of the Great Plains

Louis Sullivan

said that building expressed what people were inside

William Jennings Bryan

said that his opponents were trying to crucify mankind on a cross of gold

vigilance committees

self-appointed volunteers to track down and punish wrongdoers

Wounded Knee Creek

site of a battle between U.S. soldiers and Lakota men, women, and children

Poland

some immigrants from here came to avoid the draft; Jews not listed as coming from here

China

some immigrants from here were fleeing from civil war

George W. Plunkitt

talked about how he could get a job for any man who deserved one

Zalmen Yoffeh

talked about how taking in boarders often added to a family's burdens

William Jennings Bryan

the campaign to elect him was viewed as a revolution

Chisholm Trail

the major route north to Abilene, Kansas

James B. Weaver

this Populist ran against the Democrats for President of the United States

assimilate

to be absorbed into another society

open range

vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government

Grover Cleveland

won the popular vote in 1888