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Exam #1
US History Since 1877
| answer | defnition |
|---|---|
| 1. The 1868 Burlingame Treaty achieved the American goal of | setting the terms of emigration for Chinese laborers. |
| 2. The United States adopted the gold standard in the 1870s for its currency because | it hoped to encourage European investment in the United States. |
| 3. 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 |
| 4. 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. |
| 5. Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming? | Steel plows and other farm machinery |
| 6. Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862? | provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. |
| 7. 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. |
| 8. Farmers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century often faced which of the following natural challenges that could easily destroy crops? | hailstorms |
| 9. Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879? | blacks who immigrated to kansas |
| 10. Why were late-nineteenth-century farms on the Great Plains much larger than eastern farms? | The lockout represented Carnegieâs effort to break the plant's union. |
| 11. 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 |
| 12. 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. |
| 13. During and after the Civil War, the Republican Congress implemented its economic vision for the United States by | subsidizing the transcontinental railroad. |
| 14. Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre? | A Cheyenne camp under federal protection was brutally attacked by a state militia. |
| 15. 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. |
| 16. Which president refashioned U.S. Indian policy in the latter half of the nineteenth century? | grant |
| 17. Reformers believed that the best way to save the Indians was through | education |
| 18. In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903), the Supreme Court | ruled that Congress could ignore all existing Indian treaties. |
| 19. Following the Sioux victory at Little Big Horn, the U.S. government | pursued the various bands of Sioux until they surrendered. |
| 20. 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. |
| 21. Why was the strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant? | The lockout represented Carnegie's effort to break the plant's union. |
| 22. Which of the following resulted from industrialization in the decades after the Civil War? | a higher standard of living |
| 23. Gustavus Swift boosted productivity in his Chicago slaughterhouses in the 1860s by using | assembly lines |
| 24. 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 |
| 25. What late-nineteenth-century development made it possible for rural Americans to participate in the national consumer culture? | catalogs |
| 26. Which of the following statements characterizes the employment of women in the American labor force during the late nineteenth century? | More than 75 percent of all stenographers and typists were female. |
| 27. The development of print advertising illustrates the significance of which late-nineteenth-century phenomenon? | Businesses creating demand for brand names. |
| 28. Which of the following were skilled workers with a relatively high degree of autonomy in the 1870s? | machinists |
| 29. Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920? | They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home. |
| 30. Why did Chinese immigrants come to the United States in the nineteenth century? | They were motivated by poverty and upheaval in southern China. |
| 31. State Granger laws were designed primarily to | regulate big business |
| 32. The Knights of Labor advocated which of the following reforms in their 1878 platform? | workplace safety laws |
| 33. What was the purpose of the Hatch Act, passed by Congress and President Grover Cleveland in 1887? | To provide federal funding for agricultural research and education |
| 34. Which business strategy did John D. Rockefeller pioneer in the late nineteenth century? | horizontal integration |
| 35. The United States had become the leading steel producer in the world by 1900 because of | the bessemer process |
| 36. Which of the following was a consequence of mass production? | Skilled workers gradually lost their autonomy. |
| 37. Which of these factors were the critical determinants of workers’ occupational opportunities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? | gender and race |
| 38. What did the Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Homestead Strike of 1892 have in common? | Government troops helped put down both strikes |
| 39. Which magazine was the first to take advantage of advertising revenue to build mass readership, with over one million subscribers? | Ladies home journal |
| 40. The Supreme Court decision to overturn Granger laws in Wabash v. Illinois (1886) led to | The creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. |
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