Ch 15 Summative Quiz

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following events demonstrated the newfound international power of the United States in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War?
Annexation of Panama and the Philippines
Annexation of Hawaii
Monroe Doctrine
Britain’s damage payments to the United States
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The United States adopted the gold standard in the 1870s for its currency because
gold was a more durable form of currency than greenbacks
it hoped to encourage European investment in the United States
it sought economic development through a larger money supply
geologists predicted huge gold strikes out West
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?
It provided 160 acres of free land to qualifying white men
Republican leaders hoped it would bring white settlers to the Pacific coastal regions
Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land
Land speculators accumulated most of the available homesteads
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following was a consequence of the removal of bison from the Great Plains following the Civil War?
Bison removal discouraged the migration of homesteaders who viewed the Great Plains as largely infertile land
Bison removal robbed the Sioux of their sustenance, making it easier to force them onto reservations
Bison removal led to a mass exodus from boomtowns once primarily populated by bison hunters
Bison removal made possible the unprecedented extension of railroad and telegraph lines into the American southwest
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming?
Corporate development of drought-resistant grains
Advanced irrigation techniques
Steel plows and other farm machinery
Scientific development of synthetic pesticides
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Which of the following statements describes women’s experience in the West in the late nineteenth century?
Most women living in the West rejected the eastern ideal of domesticity
The Homestead Act reflected the attitudes of the day by excluding women as homesteaders
Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota
Women made up only a small percentage of the American population in the West
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
The majority of white settlers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century viewed themselves as
warriors who had to defeat the natives
simple subsistence farmers with modest wants and needs
conquerors over the wilds of nature
responsible for preserving the environment for future generations
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