Which of the following statements characterizes the economics of working-class family life in late-nineteenth-century America?
a. Except for the lowest-paid factory workers, most male heads of household were able to support their families through their own labor.
b. Due to their dire economic circumstances, working-class families frequently sent their children out to work in mills, factories, or mines.
c. Women's household work was crucial in maintaining the family, and
this work was commonly done by older daughters because wives were employed outside the home.
d. As children grew older, their material needs increased, which strained family budgets and made supporting the children's adolescent years hardest on families.
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How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century?
a. They operated the American Railroad Corporation.
b. Both granted public lands to private companies.
c. They secured privately owned land through eminent domain.
d. They bailed out failing railroad companies with federal funds.
b. Both granted public lands to private companies.
Which of the following was one of the reasons that the United States encouraged Chinese immigration after the Civil War?
a. The United States needed to populate lands in the American West.
b. It was intended as a gesture of American egalitarianism.
c. Many Chinese were useful railroad workers and farm laborers in the West.
d. The United States needed
additional laborers to mine gold deposits in the West.
c. Many Chinese were useful railroad workers and farm laborers in the West.
Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?
a. It provided 160 acres of free land to qualifying white men.
b. Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land.
c. Republican leaders hoped it would bring white settlers to the Pacific coastal
regions.
d. Land speculators accumulated most of the available homesteads.
b. Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land.
Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879?
a. Scandinavian settlers in Minnesota
b. Blacks who migrated to Kansas
c. Mexicans who immigrated to the United States
d. Chinese who were forced to leave California
b. Blacks who migrated to Kansas
In 1872, which of the following was established by Congress as the first national park?
a. Yellowstone
b. Yosemite
c. The Black Hills
d. The Grand Canyon
a. Yellowstone
Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre?
a. It was the last event in the Indian Wars.
b. A Cheyenne camp
under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia.
c. John Chivington believed it was necessary because the Cheyenne were so hostile.
d. It killed most Cheyenne men, leaving women and children without support.
b. A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia.
What was the purpose of Indian boarding schools in the late nineteenth century?
a. To teach
Native American children the ways of their ancient peoples
b. Only to provide the children with an education in English, mathematics, and other disciplines
c. To assimilate Native American children more easily into white culture
d. To teach the children how to speak their native languages more fluently
c. To assimilate Native American children more easily into white culture
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended to
a. exclude Japanese immigration into California.
b. place Indians on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico.
c. promote Indian assimilation by dividing their lands.
d. encourage ethnic diversity within large industries.
c. promote Indian assimilation by dividing their lands.
As a result of the Dawes Severalty Act, Indian tribes
a. lost almost two-thirds of their
land.
b. remained united against the federal government.
c. adjusted to an agricultural lifestyle.
d. migrated farther west.
a. lost almost two-thirds of their land.
Which Sioux leader led the forces that annihilated Colonel George A. Custer and his men on June 25, 1876?
a. Geronimo
b. Chief Joseph
c. Sitting Bull
d. Red Cloud
c. Sitting Bull
Why did the Ghost Dance movement spread so quickly in Native American reservations in the late 1880s and early 1890s?
a. Native American people thought the dance might end the long drought.
b. It was a purely Native American dance that represented their culture.
c. The dance served as a pleasant distraction from the ills of life on the reservation.
d. The dance fostered native peoples' hope that they could drive away white
settlers.
d. The dance fostered native peoples' hope that they could drive away white settlers.
Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee?
a. The Plains Indians continued a grim guerrilla struggle against white domination, mounting many small attacks.
b. The massacre of the Lakotas there stands as an indictment of U.S. Indian policy and western
expansionism.
c. Indians remained a large minority in South Dakota and Oklahoma, averaging 25 percent of the population.
d. It illustrated the U.S. government's faulty approach to Native Americans and led it to abandon the Dawes Plan immediately.
b. The massacre of the Lakotas there stands as an indictment of U.S. Indian policy and western expansionism.
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