Question 1

Because of high cotton prices,many sharecroppers were able to save money and buy farms.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?

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A)  It was designed to sever ties the Native Americans had with Canada.
B)  It gave individual Indians up to 520 acres of land.
C)  It made the Ku Klux Klan illegal.
D)  It sought to "Americanize" Indians by dealing with them as individuals.
E)  It made Native Americans U.S.citizens.

Question 3

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was:

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A)  declared constitutional.
B)  placed under the jurisdiction of the court.
C)  declared unconstitutional.
D)  endorsed by the Democratic party.
E)  replaced by the Civil Rights Act of 1876.

Question 4

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
-Rutherford B.Hayes

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A)  was editor of the Atlanta Constitution
B)  made improved plow for plains farmers
C)  a livestock dealer who helped establish Abilene,Kansas,as the first successful cowtown
D)  the foremost promoter of black migration to the West
E)  founded the American Tobacco CompanyF) said that the Indian wars were the result of broken promises by AmericansG) wrote that the frontier had shaped the American national characterH) led the massacre of 200 Indians at Sand CreekI) was a barbed-wire promoterJ) author of A Century of Dishonor

Question 5

The American Tobacco Company:

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A)  was based in Dallas,Texas.
B)  was second only to the Bull Durham Company in cigarette production at the turn of the century.
C)  dominated the U.S.tobacco industry by the twentieth century.
D)  was the first such government-owned company in the United States.
E)  was Virginia's largest industrial employer.

Question 6

One of the goals of the New South prophets was a diversified agriculture.What factors stood in the way of this goal?

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Question 7

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

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A)  serving on juries.
B)  farming.
C)  getting any education.
D)  getting married.
E)  suing for divorce.

Question 8

Describe the special problems that settlers on the frontier faced,focusing on the conditions that women faced as they settled in the West.

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Settlers on the frontier faced a multitu...

Question 9

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

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A)  "we must kill the Indian in order to save the man."
B)  "the only good Indian is a dead one."
C)  "if we kill the bison,we control the Indians."
D)  "Indians must be removed from tribes in order to progress."
E)  "many,if not most of our Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part."

Question 10

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

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A)  his people should resist white settlement to their very last man,woman,and child.
B)  the time had come to stop fighting and put a stop to his people's needless deaths.
C)  the Americans offered a superior way of life.
D)  magic would save his people from defeat.
E)  a massive alliance of Indians offered one last chance to turn back American settlement.

Question 11

One might say that the West actually consisted of three frontiers: the miners',the cowboys',and the farmers'.What problems did each of these groups face?

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The miners faced a variety of problems i...

Question 12

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

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A)  It ended the Indian wars.
B)  It removed the remaining Indians to reservations.
C)  It allowed white emigrants to travel on the trails of Plains Indians unmolested.
D)  It stated that Indian reservations could apply for statehood.
E)  It limited white emigration to 10,000 people per year. C

Question 13

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged the development of thriving western farms.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Black migrants to the West were called Exodusters because:

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A)  most were ex-crop dusters.
B)  they were often making their exodus from the South.
C)  they carried exodermic infections.
D)  most saw the West as an exotic destination.
E)  their bodies were extremely dusty after the long trip.

Question 15

The Mississippi Plan:

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A)  guaranteed black voting rights.
B)  stripped blacks' voting rights.
C)  guaranteed black civil rights.
D)  stripped blacks of their civil rights.
E)  gave blacks confiscated land. B

Question 16

What was a "fifty-niner"?

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A)  a cowboy on the verge of mandatory retirement at age sixty
B)  a congressional representative from frontier district fifty-nine
C)  someone in the 1870s who lived beyond the average life expectancy of fifty-eight
D)  a miner who came to Colorado following several new discoveries made in 1859
E)  someone who played for the first organized sports franchise based in California

Question 17

Describe the pattern of race relations in the South from the end of Reconstruction to 1900.

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Question 18

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

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

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A)  slavery was unsustainable.
B)  of its inept military leadership.
C)  the Union embraced more desirable cultural values.
D)  the southern elite were soft and undisciplined.
E)  it relied too much on King Cotton.

Question 20

The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:

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A)  the frontier shaped America's national character.
B)  equality has always been this country's leading ideal.
C)  America's culture is largely a copy of Europe's.
D)  the United States would become the world's leading power.
E)  America would have to find "new" Indians to conquer.

Exam 18: The New South and the New West, 1865-1900

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What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?

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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was:

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MATCHING Match each person with one of the descriptions below. -Rutherford B.Hayes

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The American Tobacco Company:

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One of the goals of the New South prophets was a diversified agriculture.What factors stood in the way of this goal?

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

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

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

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One might say that the West actually consisted of three frontiers: the miners',the cowboys',and the farmers'.What problems did each of these groups face?

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

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Black migrants to the West were called Exodusters because:

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The Mississippi Plan:

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

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