Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent, 1861–1877

iClicker Questions for America’s History, Seventh Edition and America: A Concise History, Fifth Edition

1. During the 1870s, buffalo were decimated primarily because

A. Indians, under duress from white encroachment on their lands, overharvested the herds.

B. eastern tanneries learned how to cure the hides and sparked increased demand.

C. the U.S. Department of Agriculture thought it was best to destroy the diseased animals.

D. farmers were tired of them trampling their crops.

2. As a result of the Dawes Act, the Sioux

A. received 160 acres of former tribal land per family head, with smaller parcels allocated to other individuals.

B. were protected against further acquisition of tribal lands by white settlers.

C. adjusted to a settled, agrarian lifestyle.D. assimilated into white society.

3. The Sioux felt they could withstand the U.S. Army at the Battle of Wounded Knee because of their participation in the

A. vision quest.

B. Sun Dance.

C. rain dance.

D. Ghost Dance.

4. The basis for the Far West’s development was

A. fishing along the Pacific coast.

B. tourism in the Rocky Mountain region.

C. the extraction of mineral wealth.

D. transcontinental shipment of dry goods from Pacific ports to eastern cities.

5. Chinese male miners often experienced discrimination through

A. prospector laws made at community meetings.

B. Native American tribal councils.

C. local Chinese opera organizations.

D. Chinese women.

6. Which of the following interest groups directly shaped the Peace Policy?

A. Christian reformers

B. Chinese immigrants

C. African American sharecroppers

D. Irish American laborers

7. The Exodusters were

A. settlers on the Great Plains who learned dry-farming techniques to cope with the arid conditions west of the ninety-eighth meridian.

B. former settlers on the Great Plains who fled east to escape the drought and dust storms of the 1880s.

C. African American migrants to Kansas in the late 1870s.

D. Russian immigrants to the Great Plains who understood the realities of steppe farming.

8. Farmers on the Great Plains responded to drought with dry-farming techniques that included all of the following except

A. larger acreage.

B. deep planting.

C. irrigation.

D. capital investment in machinery.

9. In Kansas, six towns elected which of the following groups as mayors, revolutionizing the notion of local office holding in the United States?

A. Chinese Americans.

B. Native Americans.

C. poor white men.

D. white women.

10. How did the United States initially utilize the Hawaiian Islands following the Civil War?

A. as a casino and resort area

B. as a penal colony

C. as a place to refuel and repair whaling ships

D. as a place to create large industrial factories

Answer Key for Chapter 16

1. Answer is B

2. Answer is A

3. Answer is D

4. Answer is C

5. Answer is A

6. Answer is A

7. Answer is C

8. Answer is C

9. Answer is D

10. Answer is C