Unit 5 Test

1. How did the transcontinental railroad help the settlement of the West?

Railroads transported people and goods throughout the nation

The railroads gave away free land to those who asked

The railroads provided free rides to passengers

Railroads helped Native Americans spread their culture

2. For most of the history of the Great Plains Native Americans their needs were met by the supply of...

Buffalo

Farming

Fishing

Horses

3. The Granger movement and the formation of the Populist Party were similar in that each was an effort to…

End the practice of sharecropping

Provide housing for urban dwellers

Improve conditions for farmers

Increase profits for railroad companies

4. Why was the Grange created?

To unite farmers so they could try to improve their economic problems

To decrease the number of farmers in the West

To try to decrease the price of their crops

To discourage people from moving west

5. Bimetallism is the use of gold and silver to back up currency.

True

False

6. Which of the following was the intended result of the Dawes Act of 1887?

Railroad companies would be persuaded to stop unfair pricing through a number of government incentives

Recently arrived European immigrants would be enticed into settling in the less populated West

Legislators would be less likely to accept bribes because of the severity of the penalty

Southern state legislatures would be motived to strike racist laws from their books in return for greater federal aid

Native Americans would be coaxed off reservations by land grants and would thus assimilate into Western culture

7. How was this land offered different from the land offered in the Homestead Act (1862)?

Purchasers had to be citizens

People had to pay for this land

Buyers need farming experience

This land was on the Atlantic Coast

8. The use of sod houses on the Great Plains by farmers is an example of...

How easy and luxurious farming life was

One of the many factors that attracted people to the west

The willingness of the government to settle the west

How people adapt to their environment

9. The term assimilate is best defined as...

The act of leaving one's homeland

The talent to speak a variety of languages

The ability to blend into another culuture

The desire to maintain one's old customs and language

10. Which of the following is true of the American rail system in the nineteenth century?

Government subsidies and land grants played a major role in its expansion.

The entire national system was planned before the first railway was constructed.

Transcontinental rail travel was not possible at any time during the century.

The development of the rails had little effect on the development of American industry.

A more highly developed rail system gave the Confederacy a decided advantage in the Civil War.

11. What is the subject of this 1872 painting?

Invention of the railroad

Evolution of westward migration

Religious influence of Puritans

Protection of national parks

12. Throughout the late 1800s, which experience was shared by most Native Americans living in the western region of the US?

They maintained control of their traditional lands

They benefited economically from government policy

They became farmers and small business owners

They were forced to live on reservations

13. William McKinely gave the Cross of Gold Speech.

True

False

14. Which conclusion is most clearly support by the map?

The government prevented the railroads from growing

The federal government prompted the building of the transcontinental railroad

Western railroads generated little money

Railroad companies had to buy the land

15. A landless settler wanting to settle the west would have supported passage of the...

Dawes Act

Jim Crow Laws

Homestead Act

Munn v Illinois

16. Check ALL of the Populist Party platform ideas and reforms.

8 Hour Work Day

Secret Ballot

Women in Politics

Direct Elections

Income Tax

Opening Back Up the Open Range

Submit

17. Match the following Indian War battles.

Sand Creek

Wounded Knee

Little Big Horn