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26 The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

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Question 1

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In post-Civil War America, what was the only reason that Indians voluntarily surrendered their ancestral land?
Answer
  • Indians chose to migrate further wast from their ancestral lands for superior farming
  • Indians received solemn promises from the federal government that they would be left alone and provided with food, clothing, and supplies on their remaining lands
  • Indians traded land to whites for rifles, blankets, food, and medicine
  • Indians were permitted to control the supply of food, buffalo, and other staples within the reservations

Question 2

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What sparked a new round of warfare between the Sioux tribe and the U.S. Army in 1874?
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  • The massacre of U.S. Army Captain William Fetterman and his soldiers by a Sioux war party near the Bozeman Trail
  • The start of an effort by Sioux Chief Crazy Horse to drive all whites from Montana and the Dakotas
  • An expedition by U.S. Army Colonel George Custer to Little Big Horn, Montana
  • The discovery of gold by Colonel George Custer on Sioux land in the Black Hills

Question 3

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All of the following factors contributed to the ultimate surrender of the Plains Indians by the 1880's EXCEPT:
Answer
  • the coming of the railroads
  • the successive waves of army troops, farmers, cattlemen, sheepherders, and settlers competing for and seizing Plains Indian lands, food and other staples, and natural resources
  • the failure of Plains Indians to display courage, cunning, and cruelty in warfare
  • medical ravaging of the Indian population by white people's disease

Question 4

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In an effort to assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
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  • dissolving many tribes as legal entities
  • abolishing tribal ownership of land
  • promising Indians U.S. citizenship in twenty-five years
  • outlawing the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance

Question 5

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What was the most important role played by the mining frontier?
Answer
  • Bringing law and order the the West
  • Attracting substantial white population and wealth to the West
  • Reducing the intensity of conflict between whites and Indians
  • Ensuring that the mining industry would remain in the hands of independent and small businessmen

Question 6

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Which of the following was NOT a serious obstacle or difficulty encountered by families seeking to farm in the frontier West?
Answer
  • Insufficient quantities of acreage for productive farming in the rain scarce Great Plains offered for sale through the Homestead Act
  • Land grabbing promoters and speculators obtaining the most attractive land for farming
  • Inhospitable soil and inadequate available technology for farming the prairie sod of the Great Plains
  • Unscrupulous corporations using dummy homesteaders to obtain the best land

Question 7

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Among the following, which group was least likely to migrate to the cattle and farming frontier of the West?
Answer
  • Eastern city dwellers
  • Eastern farmers
  • African Americans
  • Midwestern farmers

Question 8

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Why were Americans disturbed when the superintendent of the census announced in 1890 that a stable frontier line was no longer discernible?
Answer
  • Americans now knew that the Homestead Act would no longer provide them with adequate amounts of cheap, hospitable western lands to farm
  • Americans believed that this declaration meant a renewal of the Indian wars
  • It meant that a renewal of political tensions and warfare with Mexico was inevitable
  • The promise of an endlessly open and vacant West, an element of American's mythological history from its beginnings, was now over

Question 9

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How does the safety valve theory of frontier America explain the role of the West in dampening class conflict in the United States?
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  • Free western land attracted many immigrants to the West who might otherwise have clogged urban eastern job markets and depressed the wages of eastern city dwellers
  • Western farmers tended to be more politically conservative than those in the East and thus less apt to support populist or radical appeals to their economic conditions
  • Wealthy western farmers hired many unemployed laborers from eastern cities to reduce unemployment in the East
  • Western cities had less class conflict than those in the East

Question 10

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Which of the following did late-nineteenth century farmers believe to be most responsible for their difficult economic circumstances:
Answer
  • Low tariff rates
  • Overpopulation
  • A deflated currency
  • An inflated currency

Question 11

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The Populist party sought to win farmers and labors political support by endorsing all of the following EXCEPT:
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  • nationalizing the railroads, telephone, and telegraph
  • a graduated income tax
  • free coinage of silver
  • low tariff rates

Question 12

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What was the primary lesson drawn by labor unions, Populists, and debtors from the violent legal end of the Pullman railway strike?
Answer
  • Proof of an alliance among big business, the federal government, and the courts against working people
  • A strategy by which united working class action could succeed
  • The potential for the federal government to act as an effective counterweight to big business
  • The ability to rely on the courts to uphold the rights of workers to strike for better wages and working conditions

Question 13

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All of the following characterized the election of 1896 EXCEPT:
Answer
  • the major political issue of the election was free and unlimited coinage of silver
  • an ushering in of an extended period of increased voter participation, the strengthening of party organizations, and the continued presence of the money question and civil service reforms in the national political discourse
  • it was the last time in American history that a serious effort to win the White House would be made by mostly agrarian voters
  • millions of dollars were raised from trusts and big businessmen by Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Hanna to ensure the election of William McKinley and protect big business interest

Question 14

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What was the primary cause of the monetary inflation that eventually relieved, but did not end, the social and economic hardships of the late nineteenth century?
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  • The Gold Standard Act
  • McKinley's adoption of the bimetallic standard
  • An increase in the international gold supply
  • Populist fusion with the Democratic party

Question 15

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The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier shaped America by:
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  • killing off many of the most adventurous individuals
  • stimulating individualism, nationalism, and democracy
  • producing institutions very much like those of Europe
  • creating new opportunities for women

Question 16

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During the late 1800s, farmers supported free and unlimited coinage of silver mainly because they believed that it would lead to?
Answer
  • the establishment of government farm price supports
  • higher prices for farm products
  • the lowering of rates charged by railroads
  • lower prices for consumer goods

Question 17

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The United States government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in the?
Answer
  • Battle of Little Big Horn
  • Battle of Potowanamie Creek
  • Massacre at Sand Creek
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

Question 18

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The two factors that did most to stimulate rapid western settlement were?
Answer
  • the Homestead Act and the railroad
  • removal of the buffalo and Native Americans from the plains
  • the gold rushes and the rise of the great cattle kingdom
  • the removal of the Indians and the gold rushes

Question 19

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Open range ranching came to an end due to:
Answer
  • the range wars between cattlemen and sheepherders
  • increase in cattle production in the Midwest and East
  • fencing of the plains with barbed wire
  • overproduction of beef and declining prices

Question 20

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The basic economic motivation behind the coinage of silver was to:
Answer
  • encourage reduced production of agriculture products
  • ease the burden of debtors
  • increase foreign trade
  • encourage increased production of agriculture products

Question 21

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After the Granger laws ran into legal problems and were overturned in the case of Wabash v. Illiniois, Congress attempted to provide relief through the?
Answer
  • Sherman Antitrust Act
  • graduated income tax
  • Homestead Act
  • Interstate Commerce Act

Question 22

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Helen Hunt Jackson's book entitled "A Century of Dishonor" (1880) recounted?
Answer
  • American imperialism and its effects on the middle class
  • the atrocities of the Spanish-American War
  • the long record of broken treaties and injustices against American Indians
  • the abuses involving big business trusts in America
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