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The 1868 Burlingame Treaty achieved the American goal of
Setting the terms of emigration for Chinese laborers.
Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?
Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land.
Which of the following was a reason the U.S. government elected to define small preserves of “uninhabited wilderness” in the 1860s and 1870s?
To contribute to the conquest of Native Americans in the West
Which president refashioned U.S. Indian policy in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
Grant
Why was the strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant?
The lockout represented Carnegie's effort to break the plant's union
The United States adopted the gold standard in the 1870s for its currency because
It hoped to encourage European investment in the United States.
Which of the following statements describes women’s experience in the West in the late nineteenth century?
Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota.
What was the result of the first wildlife protection bill passed by Congress in 1874?
President Grant vetoed the bill because he knew that killing the bison would cripple Indian resistance
Reformers believed that the best way to save the Indians was through
education
Which of the following resulted from industrialization in the decades after the Civil War?
A higher standard of living
Who benefited most from the General Mining Act of 1872, which allowed individuals who discovered minerals on federally owned land to work the claim and keep the proceeds?
Powerful investors
Farmers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century often faced which of the following natural challenges that could easily destroy crops?
Hailstorms
During and after the Civil War, the Republican Congress implemented its economic vision for the United States by
subsidizing the transcontinental railroad
In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903), the Supreme Court
ruled that Congress could ignore all existing Indian treaties
Gustavus Swift boosted productivity in his Chicago slaughterhouses in the 1860s by using
Assembly lines
Why was it necessary for railroads and land speculators to promote settlement of the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century?
Americans thought of the area as the Great American Desert.
Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879?
Blacks who migrated to Kansas
Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre?
A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia
Following the Sioux victory at Little Big Horn, the U.S. government
pursued the various bands of Sioux until they surrendered
How did John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Corporation come to control 95 percent of the nation’s oil refining capacity by the 1880s?
Through predatory pricing and the creation of the trust
Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming?
Steel plows and other farm machinery
Why were late-nineteenth-century farms on the Great Plains much larger than eastern farms?
Dry-farming techniques required about three hundred acres to support a family
John Wesley Powell, in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878), famously stated that
massive cooperation under government control was the only way farming would succeed on the Great Plains
Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the Battle of Wounded Knee?
The massacre of the Lakotas there stands as an indictment of U.S. Indian policy and western expansionism
What late-nineteenth-century development made it possible for rural Americans to participate in the national consumer culture?
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