Question 1

This export crop spurred growth in agriculture in the West during the late nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

wheat

Question 2

The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women:

Accepted Answer

more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts.

Question 3

The factor most responsible for making farming on the plains more difficult was its:

Accepted Answer

unforgiving environment and mercurial weather.

Question 4

The Indian wars effectively ended with the capture of Geronimo, a chief of the Chiricahua Apaches.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Redeemers were all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

members of the Republican party.

Question 6

Black migrants to the West were called Exodusters because:

Accepted Answer

they were often making their exodus from the South.

Question 7

Why was the Fort Laramie Treaty, signed in 1851, significant to westward expansion?

Accepted Answer

It allowed white emigrants to travel on the trails of Plains Indians unmolested.

Question 8

The Mississippi Plan:

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stripped blacks' voting rights.

Question 9

The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:

Accepted Answer

the frontier shaped America's national character.

Question 10

What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?

Accepted Answer

It sought to Americanize Indians by dealing with them as individuals.

Question 11

The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of:

Accepted Answer

capital

Question 12

Proponents of the New South believed that the South should:

Accepted Answer

industrialize

Question 13

The very poor generally did not migrate to the West because:

Accepted Answer

they generally could not afford the expense of transportation, land, and supplies.

Question 14

In 1877, President Rutherford Hayes addressed the American approach to dealing with Native Americans, saying:

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many, if not most of our Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part.

Question 15

Cowtown refers to:

Accepted Answer

towns that grew up in the West as a result of the expanding cattle industry.

Question 16

In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in the production of all of the following areas EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

automobiles.

Question 17

King Cotton survived the Civil War and expanded over new acreage:

Accepted Answer

because traditional overplanting of the crop continued.

Question 18

Joseph Glidden:

Accepted Answer

perfected the invention of barbed wire.

Question 19

Six states were created from the western territories in the years 1889-1890. These states were not admitted before 1889 because:

Accepted Answer

Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican.

Question 20

All of the following groups were prominent in the West during the late nineteenth century EXCEPT:

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slaves.

Question 21

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was:

Accepted Answer

declared unconstitutional.

Question 22

The major champion of the New South gospel was:

Accepted Answer

Henry W. Grady.

Question 23

As railroads spread into Texas and across the plains, the cattle business:

Accepted Answer

spread with them.

Question 24

The American Tobacco Company:

Accepted Answer

dominated the U.S. tobacco industry by the twentieth century.

Question 25

What was a fiftyniner?

Accepted Answer

a miner who came to Colorado following several new discoveries made in 1859

Question 26

The number of cotton mills in the South more than doubled between 1880 and 1900.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Why was Helen Hunt Jackson's book A Century of Dishonor so influential?

Accepted Answer

It affected American attitudes toward Indians similar to how Uncle Tom's Cabin mobilized the abolitionist movement a generation earlier.

Question 28

The New South gospel emphasized all the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

women's rights.

Question 29

In the croplien system, farmers could grow little besides cotton, tobacco, or some other staple crop.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

The frontier Indian wars began with the closing of the frontier in 1890.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

Congress passed the Homestead Act:

Accepted Answer

to encourage settlement of the western lands.

Question 32

Who was a prominent tobacco executive in the South during the late nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

James Buchanan Duke

Question 33

As many as 25 percent of the cowboys who participated in the Texas cattle drives were:

Accepted Answer

African American.

Question 34

The 1890 census reported that:

Accepted Answer

the frontier era in American development was over.

Question 35

The main goal in passing the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to swindle the Indians out of their remaining lands.

Accepted Answer

False

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