Public Schools of Robeson County American History II

American History 2: Unit 1 Test

1.Which of the following groups of people were not involved in the dangerous building of this railroad?

A.Mexican Americans

B.Chinese Americans

C.White American soldiers

D.African Americans

  1. What did the Homestead Act provide?

A.waterway access to the Mississippi River

B.160 acres of land to any family willing to farm that land

C.Federal money to former slaves

D.Federal money to Chinese Americans

  1. Who were the exodusters?

A.African Americans leaving the South and moving to Kansas

B.Civil War Veterans who left the South after the war

C.Women seeking the right to vote

D.White farmers who took advantage of the Homestead Act

  1. What was the name of the houses that western pioneers built out on the prairie?

A.Stick built homes

  1. Log built cabins
  2. Soddies
  3. Teepees
  1. Which of the following was not a problem farmers faced on the open prairie?

A. Different rates charged by the railroads

  1. Huge bonanza farms

C.Growing debt from machinery and unstable crop prices

D.Rocky soil and infertile lands

  1. What was a result of the Sand Creek Massacre?
  1. Over 150 Native American women and children were killed
  2. A tie occurred between American troops and Native Americans

C.Native Americans killed over two hundred American troops

D.A civil war occurred in the west

  1. What occurred at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
  1. Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were killed in battle
  2. General Custer and over 200 of his men were killed when they ran up against over

2,000 Native American warriors

C. Native Americans were forced on to reservations

  1. Native Americans were forced to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie
  1. What did the Battle of Wounded Knee bring a bitter end to?

A.The Civil War

B.The Open Range

C.The Indian Wars

D.The migration West

  1. Who did the Dawes Act intend to “Americanize?”

A.African Americans

B.Chinese Americans

C.Irish immigrants

D.Native Americans

  1. The Push for Native Americans to adopt European ways of life was called

A. maturation

B. displacement

C. assimilation

D. reintegration

  1. During the 1860s and 1870s, the Grangers carried out all of the following activities EXCEPT?

A.they established cooperatives

B.they forged a political coalition with organized labor.

C.they supported political candidates sympathetic to the farmers’ needs.

D.they disseminated information about new scientific agricultural techniques.

  1. Which statement BEST describes many of the reforms proposed by the Populist Party?

A.they were just campaign promises.

B.they were won through the efforts of other political parties at a later time.

C.they were undesirable in a democratic country.

D.they disappeared from public interest.

  1. After the Granger laws ran into legal problems and were overturned in the case of Wabash v. Illinois, congress attempted to provide relief through the ?

A.Sherman Antitrust Act

B. Atlanta Compromise

C. Homestead Act

D. Interstate Commerce Act

  1. Construction of the early transcontinental railroad lines was financed mainly by
  1. European investors excited about the developing American West
  2. Wall Street investors with close ties to cattle and mining
  3. government subsidies in the form of favorable loans and land grants.
  4. All these answers are correct
  1. The collapse of the Populist Party was most influenced by the

A. panic of 1893

B. defeat of Bryan

C. free silver policy

D. gold bug Democrats

  1. What fencing material revolutionized agriculture on the prairies and plains?
  1. split rails
  2. barbed wire
  3. pickets
  4. chicken wire
  1. The Supreme Court upheld the principle that state governments could regulate railroad and grain elevator with its decision in?
  1. Munn v. Illinois
  2. Plessy v. Ferguson
  3. Muller v. Oregon
  4. McCulloch v. Maryland
  1. The Populist movement of the 1890s can best be described as a/
  1. trade union movement located in major Eastern cities
  2. political coalition of farming interests directed against banking and railroad interest
  3. reform movement seeking to eliminate urban poverty and slums
  4. political interest group desiring a war with Spain to protect U.S. interests in Cuba
  1. Supporters of the Populist Party included large numbers of all of the following except
  1. mid-western family farmers
  2. southern tenant farmers
  3. western miners
  4. eastern labor unions
  1. How were the lives of many Chinese immigrants affected by the transcontinental railroad?
  1. They were given jobs to plan the transcontinental railroad, but they were underpaid
  2. They were employed to build the railroad tracks, but they also suffered from discrimination
  3. They used factories to manufacture railroad tracks and ties, and they became economically and politically powerful.
  4. They used the transcontinental railroad to travel west to search for gold, but they had to leave their families behind.
  1. The Farmer’s Alliance of the 1800s primarily appealed mainly to?
  1. small farmers in the Northeast who found themselves unable to compete with large western farms
  2. established well-to-do farmers who desired to limit production in order to sustain high prices
  3. Southern and Great Plains farmers frustrated with low crop prices
  4. owners of the giant "bonanza" farms of the northern plains states who sought special advantages from the government
  1. What do the Interstate Commerce Act and Wabash V. Illinois have in common?
  1. Both limited the powers of the Federal government to regulate interstate trade.
  2. Both increased the powers of the Federal government to regulate the railroad industry.
  3. Both limited state regulations on the expansion of the intercontinental railroad.
  4. Both increased the power of the Federal government to regulate the price of grain.
  1. Which of the following marked the collapse of Populism?
  1. the Panic of 1893
  2. the founding of the Grange
  3. the “Cross of Gold” speech
  4. the election of William McKinley
  1. Why did Plains farmers in the late 1800s tend to support bimetallism?
  1. It would put more money in circulation.
  2. It would make the nation’s money supply safer?
  3. It would lower the prices of seed and farm machinery.
  4. It would allow them to profit from the mineral rights on their land.
  1. Why did little of the free land offered by the Homestead Act end up being claimed by settlers?
  1. The land was too difficult to farm.
  2. Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.
  3. Most of it was taken by people seeking profits.
  4. The government put too many restrictions on its use.
  1. The Dawes Act was designed to benefit
  1. Native Americans
  2. white settlers
  3. both Native Americans and white settlers
  4. immigrants to the United States
  1. William McKinley won the election of 1856 because
  1. he campaigned harder than his opponent
  2. he had the support of the East and Midwest
  3. he delivered the “Cross of Gold” speech
  4. he had the backing of the Populist party
  1. Which of the following did not intensify the debts that Plains farmers had during the late 1800s?
  1. inflation
  2. falling prices
  3. a tight money supply
  4. a shrinking supply of farm land
  1. Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?
  1. White settlers began wanting the land on the Plains
  2. Native Americans refused to remain on the Plains
  3. Native American populations decreased and needed less land
  4. The Plains failed to meet the needs of Native American peoples.
  1. Which of the following was not central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800s?
  1. the horse
  2. the buffalo
  3. the extended family
  4. land ownership

Extended Response

  1. How did new inventions make frontier farming both easier and more difficult?
  2. Do you think the government’s treatment of Native Americans in the mid to late 1800s was justified? Explain your answer
  3. Explain why the issue of what metals should be the basis of the nation’s monetary system was so important to farmers at this time.