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Quiz –Mining, Railroads, and the West

Part I – Seven Points

Short Answer

Directions: Answer the questions below; each question is one point each; except #16, which is two points.

1. (Two points – two parts) 1.Describe how the Homestead Act worked. 2.How did this impact the settling of the Great Plains by non-Native Americans?______

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2. (Two points – two parts) 1.What is Manifest Destiny? 2. How did this impact relations between Native Americans and the dominant American culture? ______

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3. (Three points – three parts) 1.What is the definition of culture? 2. How do we see cultural differences in the people that came to live upon the Great Plains in the 1860’s? 3.How do these cultural differences impact the events being studied in the 1860’s and 1870’s in the settling of the Great Plains? ______

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Part III – Nine Points

Multiple Choice and True/False Questions

Directions: Write the letter that best answers the question in the space provided. There is one best correct answer

___ 4. The most primitive form of mining, ______was very prevalent in the Black Hills during the 1874-77 Black Hills Gold Rush.

A. Placer mining

B. Sluice mining

C. Open-pit mining

D. Hydraulic mining

E. Quartz mining

___ 5. Within the historical period from 1860 to 1900, the United States accomplished the closing of the frontier and the settling of the West largely through the Federal Government policy of ______.

  1. Passing an increased number of liberal immigration laws
  2. Selling the most fertile public lands to various Native American tribes
  3. Granting tracts of land to railroad companies to encourage construction
  4. The Homestead Act
  5. Answers “C” and “D”

___ 6. True or False: The Lakota words “OcetiSakowin” is a confederacy speaking three dialects of Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota, and these words mean the people of the “Seven Council Fires.”

A. True

B. False

___ 7. The following fact of ______was probably most destructive to the Lakota culture during this period of history.

A. During the 1700’s there may have been as many as 30 million buffalo living upon the Great Plains

B. During the 1870’s and 1880’s, there were as many as 8,000 buffalo killed each day

C. Texas Longhorn cattle were taken north across the plains of Texas and Oklahoma Territory to railroads in

Kansas to be shipped to the East

D. The development of standard time with Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific standard times

___ 8. The Lakota word“Oyate,”an important concept to the Lakota culture, means ______.

A. The people or nation

B. Extended family

C. All my relations

D. People of the seven council fires

___ 9. True or False: Towns affected by the “Boom and Bust” cycles associated with the mining industry in the American West experienced very little change in population statistics.

A. True

B. False

___ 10. This form of mining, known as______, diverted water from the current of a river into a box with metal bars and a screen that was designed to contain the heavier ore material, while allowing the water and sediment to pass through.

A. Placer mining

B. Sluice mining

C. Open-pit mining

D. Hydraulic mining

E. Quartz mining

___ 11. Within the larger settlement patterns of the American West, the ______were the first non-Native Americans to live in “The West.”

A. Settlers traveling upon covered wagons in the Overland Trails

B. Gold prospectors

C. Mountain men / fur trappers

D. Railroad travelers

___ 27. According to contemporary statistics about the opinions of Americans, ______is very strong in this country, as this social theory affirms that no matter how humble one’s origins in life, through talent, commitment, and hard work anyone can be successful.

A. Laissez-faire

B. Entrepreneurism

C. Social Darwinism

D. Individualism

___ 28. The ideas of ______refer to the “bread and butter” issues that unions wanted to achieve for its workforce.

A. Companies recognizing unions, companies agreeing to collective bargaining, and higher wages

B. Eight-hour work day, higher wages, and an end to child labor

C. “Closed shops,” that is, factories only hiring union members, the creating of worker-owned factories,

and an end to child labor laws

D. Better working conditions, an eight-hour work day, and higher wages

E. Higher wages, an eight-hour work day, equal pay for women, and better working conditions