Question 1

The major champion of the New South gospel was:

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Henry W. Grady

Question 2

The New South gospel emphasized all the following EXCEPT:

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women's rights

Question 3

Proponents of creating a New South argued that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because:

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it relied too much upon King Cotton

Question 4

Proponents of the New South believed that the South should:

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industrialize

Question 5

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

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lumber

Question 6

The American Tobacco Company was:

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

Question 7

Why was Alabama named the Pittsburgh of the South?

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It was an iron center.

Question 8

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

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James Buchanan Duke

Question 9

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

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because traditional overplanting of the crop continued

Question 10

The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of:

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capital

Question 11

Why did tenant farmers have no incentive to take care of the farmland that they were on?

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They did not own the land on which they farmed.

Question 12

Furnishing merchants provided the following services:

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food, clothing, seed, and other items on credit

Question 13

The Mississippi Plan:

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stripped blacks of their civil rights

Question 14

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was:

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members of the Republican party

Question 15

Benjamin Singleton:

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was an early promoter of black migration to the West

Question 16

Black migrants to the West were called Exodusters because:

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they were often making their exodus from the South

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

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

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slaves

Question 19

Buffalo soldiers were:

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white hunters who killed millions of buffalo

Question 20

The Comstock Lode refers to:

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a mining discovery of gold and silver in Nevada

Question 21

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

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

Question 22

In the landmark case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company:

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the judge ruled on the legality of dumping mining debris in water sources

Question 23

Why was hydraulic mining so damaging to the environment?

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It caused tons of dirt and debris to clog rivers, kill fish, and pollute downstream farmland.

Question 24

Following the 1867 Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes, Congress decided that the best way to end the Indian wars was:

Accepted Answer

to persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations

Question 25

The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination was the:

Accepted Answer

Sioux

Question 26

By the late nineteenth century, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians believed:

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the time had come to stop fighting and put a stop to his people's needless deaths

Question 27

The conventional explanation that the buffalo disappeared from the plains due to overhunting by whites in the West is incomplete because:

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it does not account for environmental factors, such as changes in climate and competition for forage with other animals

Question 28

If there had been no white hunters in the West, the buffalo:

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population would still have experienced a devastating decline

Question 29

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

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

Question 30

What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?

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

Question 31

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 32

The first great cow town was:

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Abilene, Kansas

Question 33

Cow town refers to:

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

Question 34

Why was the expansion of railroads significant to the growth of the cattle industry?

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As the railroads increased the ability to ship huge numbers of western cattle, more cow towns were established in the West.

Question 35

Joseph Glidden:

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perfected the invention of barbed wire

Question 36

Violence in the mining towns was:

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as common as racial prejudice

Question 37

Congress passed the Homestead Act:

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to encourage settlement of the western lands

Question 38

As railroads brought piles of lumber to the West:

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farmers could upgrade their houses

Question 39

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

Accepted Answer

wheat

Question 40

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

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more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts

Question 41

In much of the nineteenth century, women in Texas were legally prohibited from:

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serving on juries

Question 42

The 1890 census reported that:

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the frontier era in American development was over

Question 43

The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:

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the frontier shaped America's national character

Question 44

The so-called frontier thesis is problematic because, among other things:

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it exaggerated the homogenizing effect of the frontier environment and virtually ignored the role of women

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