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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 forced Native Americans onto reservations
B
They enabled railroad companies to develop the land near their tracks
C
They discriminated against African Americans families
D
They provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands
2) Which statement best describes the lifestyle of homesteaders?
A
Homesteaders lived a simple and secure lives
B
Homesteaders lived in isolation and avoided social contact
C
Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the necessities
D
Most women worked outside their homestead
3) Many agreements between Native Americans and the federal government fell apart because?
A
Native Americans wanted to work as tenant farmers or sharecroppers
B
Native Americans and settlers had differing concepts of land ownership
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
The last buffalo of the Great Plains were killed
B
The Nez Perce fought for possession of their homeland
C
General Custer's cavalry was completely wiped out
D
American soldiers killed more than 200 unarmed Native Americans
5) In the West, the combination of big business and new agricultural techniques resulted in
A
Placer Mines
B
The long dirve
C
Reservations
D
Bonanza farms
6) Which one of the following was a major complaint of farmers in the late 1800s?
A
High tariffs on manufactured goods
B
Runaways inflation
C
Activities of the Grange
D
Rising crop prices
7) Western farmers wanted free silver because they felt it woul
A
Decrease crop prices
B
Increase 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
Texas and New Mexico
B
Oregon and California
C
New York and Maine
D
New Mexico and California
9) Which one of the following did the Populists support?
A
The Turner thesis
B
the Gold Standard
C
A progressive income tax
D
Private ownership of communications and transportation systems
10) Most African Americans Exodusters migrated west to
A
find relatives who had fled during the Civil War
B
Work as sharecroppers on bonanza farms
C
Prospect for gold and silver
D
Escape racial violence in the South
11) Which of the following marked the collapse of the Populism/Populist Party
A
the election of President William McKinley 1896
B
founding of the Grange
C
Panic of 1893
D
The Cross of Gold Speech
12) One way the government sought to change Native Americans was by
A
Teaching them to hunt buffalo
B
Finding them jobs on the railroads
C
Requiring them to farm on individual plots of land
D
Requiring them to move to growing cities
13) Farm mechanization resulted in
A
An increase in farm production
B
The end of bonanza farms
C
A decline in the number of eastern farms
D
Stable crop prices
14) In families on the homestead, what did women do?
A
raised food crops
B
Cooked, cleaned, and made and wash clothes
C
raised and schooled the childern
D
All the above
15) Most American farmers int he late 1800s protested
A
Gold Standard
B
Farmers' Alliances
C
The Interstate Commerce Act
D
Free silver
16) In their platform, the Populists Party included provisions for
A
Excluding African Americans from the Populist Party membership
B
Changing to the gold standard and ending any government regulation of business
C
Free silver, a progressive income tax, and a 8 hr work day
D
Private ownership of communication and transportation systems
17) What is Manifest Destiny?
A
The belief that the rich were destined to get richer
B
The belief that America should police the western hemisphere
C
The belief that America should expand across the continent
D
The belief that England would one day regain control of North America
18) When building the Transcontinental Railroad, what major ethnicity took up 67% of the workforce?
A
African Americans
B
Norwegian Immigrants
C
Irish Immigrants
D
Chinese immigrants
19) The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad are most closely associated with the?
A
Northern migration of African Americans
B
Decline of the Plain Indians
C
Rise of organized labor
D
Building of the Erie Canal
20) What was the one key requirement tat applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act?
A
They had to wheel portable cabins from plot to plot
B
They had to farm the land for 5 years
C
They had to live on the land all year long
D
They had to file a claim with a bank
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