Term
Which of the following does not represent a group that participated significantly in westward migration after 1870?
A. African American “exodusters” escaping
racism and seeking economic opportunities
B. former Southern slaveholders seeking land and new financial opportunities
C. recent immigrants from Northern Europe
and Canada
D. recent Chinese immigrants seeking gold in California |
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Definition
| B. former Southern slaveholders seeking land and new financial opportunities |
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Which of the following represents an action
that the U.S. government took to help Americans
fulfill the goal of western expansion?
A. the passage of the Homestead Act
B. the official creation of the philosophy of Manifest Destiny
C. the development of stricter immigration
policies
D. the introduction of new irrigation
techniques |
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Definition
| A. the passage of the Homestead Act |
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Term
Why and how did the U.S. government
promote western migration in the midst of
fighting the Civil War? |
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Definition
| To encourage settlement by loyal citizens and expand "free soil" across the West by promoting migration through the Homestead Act (1862) and the Pacific Railway Act (1862) |
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Term
What specific types of hardships did an
average American farmer not face as he built his
homestead in the Midwest?
A. droughts
B. insect swarms
C. hostile Indian attacks
D. limited building supplies |
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Definition
| C. hostile Indian attacks |
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Term
What accounts for the success of large,
commercial “bonanza farms?” |
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Definition
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Term
How did everyday life in the American West
hasten equality for women who settled the land? |
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Definition
| Women worked alongside men in essential farming tasks, making them more equal partners in homestead success. |
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Term
Which of the following groups was not
impacted by the invention of barbed wire?
A. ranchers
B. cowboys
C. farmers
D. illegal prostitutes |
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Definition
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Term
The American cowboy owes much of its model
to what other culture?
A. Mexicans
B. Indians
C. Northern European immigrants
D. Chinese immigrants |
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Definition
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Term
| How did mining and cattle ranching transform individual "get rich quick" efforts into "big business" efforts when the nineteenth century came to a close? |
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Definition
| Large corporations and wealthy investors financed deep mining operations, railroads, and large ranches, gradually replacing independent prospectors and small cattle operators. |
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Term
Which of the following was not a primary
method by which the American government dealt with American Indians during the period of western settlement?
A. relocation
B. appeasement
C. extermination
D. assimilation |
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Definition
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Term
What did the Last Arrow pageant symbolize?
A. the continuing fight of the Indians
B. the total extermination of the Indians from the West
C. the final step in the Americanization
process
D. the rebellion at Little Bighorn |
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Definition
| C. the final step in the Americanization process |
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Term
What brought the majority of Chinese
immigrants to the U.S.?
A. gold
B. work opportunities on the railroads
C. the Homestead Act
D. Chinese benevolent associations |
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Definition
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How were Hispanic citizens deprived of their
wealth and land in the course of western
settlement?
A. Indian raids
B. land seizures
C. prisoner of war status
D. infighting |
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