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Westward Expansion Unit 1 Part 1
Test Description: U.S. history EOC
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What did the Morrill Act and the Homestead Act have in common
A
They provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands
B
They discriminated against African Americans families
C
They forced Native Americans onto reservations
D
They enabled railroad companies to develop the land near their tracks
2) Which statement best describes the lifestyle of homesteaders?
A
Most women worked outside their homestead
B
Homesteaders lived in isolation and avoided social contact
C
Homesteaders lived a simple and secure lives
D
Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the necessities
3) Many agreements between Native Americans and the federal government fell apart because?
A
Native Americans and settlers had differing concepts of land ownership
B
Native Americans wanted to work as tenant farmers or sharecroppers
C
Many settlers objected to the reservation system
D
Most of the treaties were never signed
4) What happened at the Sand Creek Massacre?
A
General Custer's cavalry was completely wiped out
B
The last buffalo of the Great Plains were killed
C
American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Native Americans
D
The Nez Perce fought for possession of their homeland
5) In the West, the combination of big business and new agricultural techniques resulted in
A
Placer Mines
B
Bonanza farms
C
Reservations
D
The long dirve
6) Which one of the following was a major complaint of farmers in the late 1800s?
A
Rising crop prices
B
Runaways inflation
C
High tariffs on manufactured goods
D
Activities of the Grange
7) Western farmers wanted free silver because they felt it woul
A
Increase crop prices
B
Decrease crop prices
C
Stabilize interest rates
D
Increase the amount of money in circulation
8) The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo give the United States what two states?
A
Oregon and California
B
New York and Maine
C
New Mexico and California
D
Texas and New Mexico
9) Which one of the following did the Populists support?
A
The Turner thesis
B
the Gold Standard
C
Private ownership of communications and transportation systems
D
A progressive income tax
10) Most African Americans Exodusters migrated west to
A
Prospect for gold and silver
B
find relatives who had fled during the Civil War
C
Escape racial violence in the South
D
Work as sharecroppers on bonanza farms
11) Which of the following marked the collapse of the Populism/Populist Party
A
The Cross of Gold Speech
B
founding of the Grange
C
the election of President William McKinley 1896
D
Panic of 1893
12) One way the government sought to change Native Americans was by
A
Requiring them to move to growing cities
B
Teaching them to hunt buffalo
C
Requiring them to farm on individual plots of land
D
Finding them jobs on the railroads
13) Farm mechanization resulted in
A
A decline in the number of eastern farms
B
The end of bonanza farms
C
An increase in farm production
D
Stable crop prices
14) In families on the homestead, what did women do?
A
raised food crops
B
All the above
C
Cooked, cleaned, and made and wash clothes
D
raised and schooled the childern
15) Most American farmers int he late 1800s protested
A
Gold Standard
B
Free silver
C
The Interstate Commerce Act
D
Farmers' Alliances
16) In their platform, the Populists Party included provisions for
A
Excluding African Americans from the Populist Party membership
B
Private ownership of communication and transportation systems
C
Changing to the gold standard and ending any government regulation of business
D
Free silver, a progressive income tax, and a 8 hr work day
17) What is Manifest Destiny?
A
The belief that America should expand across the continent
B
The belief that England would one day regain control of North America
C
The belief that the rich were destined to get richer
D
The belief that America should police the western hemisphere
18) When building the Transcontinental Railroad, what major ethnicity took up 67% of the workforce?
A
Chinese immigrants
B
Irish Immigrants
C
Norwegian Immigrants
D
African Americans
19) The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad are most closely associated with the?
A
Decline of the Plain Indians
B
Northern migration of African Americans
C
Building of the Erie Canal
D
Rise of organized labor
20) What was the one key requirement tat applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act?
A
They had to live on the land all year long
B
They had to wheel portable cabins from plot to plot
C
They had to file a claim with a bank
D
They had to farm the land for 5 years
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