APUSH Chapter 16

Who were the Exodusters?

a. African Americans who migrated to Kansas in the late 1870s

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?

a. it gave 160 acres to applicants who occupied and improved them

What did the 1868 Burlingame Treaty guarantee?

a. the rights of U.S. missionaries in China and terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to the United States

The creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 was an early important step toward a public commitment to

b. preservation

Why did Indian agents and missionaries create Indian schools off the reservations as part of the effort to solve what was seen as the "Indian problem"?

b. they did not think they could re-educate Indian children when still living with their families

What role did trade and industrial development play in the adoption of the gold standard by the U.S. government in 1873?

c. adopting the gold standard opened the country to foreign investment

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

c. its promise of Indian resurrection

What problem plagued homesteaders of the Great Plains in the 1880s?

c. lack of rain

What was the purpose of the Long Drive?

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

What triggered the migration of large numbers of Scandinavians and Germans in the 1870s?

d. a severe depression in northern Europe