chapter 17

1.

1 point

Which of the following statements is true concerning the long drive?

Although the long drive gave rise to romantic tales, it made cattle sinewy and tough.

Ranching syndicates that conducted the long drive had to purchase enormous stretches of land on which the herds could feed.

2.

1 point

Which of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act?

Community-owned Indian property was dissolved and land allotments were granted to individual Indian families.

The western Indians were encouraged to actively participate in decisions that would affect their lives and their culture.

3.

1 point

In which of the following ways did the federal government encourage the advancement of farming technology?

by passing the Hatch Act of 1887

by funding a vast irrigation network in the Plains

4.

1 point

Which of the following was instrumental in ending open-range ranching?

the invention of barbed wire in 1873

government land grants to railroad companies

5.

1 point

Which of the following was one of the factors that threatened the existence of Indians in the West?

The conciliatory attitude of young Indian men toward whites left them vulnerable to abusive treatment.

Most western migrants were young, white, single males who generally viewed Indians with contempt and had few qualms about killing those who got in their way.

6.

1 point

In the early 1880s, George Manypenny and Helen Hunt Jackson:

wrote books that raised American concern about government treatment of Indians.

founded the Indian Rights Association.

7.

1 point

Which of the following was true of the "exodusters" who migrated from the South to Kansas in 1879?

They were white sharecroppers who were recruited to move to Kansas by the Kansas Farmers' Alliance.

Many of them were former slaves and received aid from the Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association.

8.

1 point

Lumbering companies managed to grab millions of acres of land in the Northwest by:

bribing three Congressmen to push through measures that allowed forest land in the West be sold to lumbering companies.

enticing private citizens to buy plots cheaply under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878 and then transfer ownership to the companies.

9.

1 point

Which of the following was a consequence of the reservation policy of the U.S. government?

It weakened almost every aspect of Indian life.

It led to the assimilation of most western Indians into mainstream American culture.

10.

1 point

Whites settling the Great Plains generally believed which of the following?

Fearing competition from African American workers, white settlers assumed that the federal government would bar blacks from the territories.

Disregarding the rights of Plains Indians, white settlers generally believed they could settle wherever they wished.

11.

1 point

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century:

railroads embarked on a construction boom funded primarily by huge investments by eastern financiers.

railroads created the nation's four time zones on their own initiative and without congressional authorization.

12.

1 point

Which of the following wrote on the needs of her people and was the first Indian secretary of the Society of American Indians?

Frances Harper

Gertrude Bonnin

13.

1 point

Which of the following was true of ethnic minorities in late nineteenth-century frontier communities?

They were welcomed because of the skills they brought with them.

They usually had to endure white prejudice.

14.

1 point

The Newlands Reclamation Act:

provided for the sale of 1,000-acre parcels of land to private corporations that agreed to irrigate and develop them.

encouraged the agricultural development of the West by using the proceeds from the sale of public lands to finance irrigation projects.

15.

1 point

Which of the following was an assumption made by the U.S. government that frequently led to major problems in making treaties with Indian tribes?

The assumption that a chief was always the most honored elder in a village.

The assumption that a chief was the single spokesman for the bands that made up a tribe.