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Chapter 15 Summative Quiz

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1. To complete the project, in 1869 the two crews who built the transcontinental railroad met at

Promontory Point, Utah.

Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

Carson City, Nevada.

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2. The corrupt practices of Union Pacific railroad developers—which resulted in a congressional investigation—included the creation of a fake company called

Comstock Lode.

Crédit Mobilier.

Amalgamated Copper.

Equitable Trust.

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3. The landscape and climate of the Great Plains encouraged the establishment of

lumber companies.

cattle ranches.

small farms.

Indian reservations.

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4. Which of the following characterizes the role of gender differences in Native American hunting societies?

Men were the hunters and therefore considered superior to women.

Women were the hunters and therefore considered superior to men.

Women did not hunt, but they did work, producing food, clothing, and shelter for their tribes.

Women were passive consumers of the goods men provided.

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5. What was the intent of the Treaty of Fort Laramie?

To preserve designated areas of the Plains for Indian habitation

To open the Plains to white settlers

To turn over the area’s mining rights to white prospectors

To destroy Indian hunting grounds

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6. What did Indians have to do to receive 160 acres of land and American citizenship under the Dawes Act of 1887?

Give up traditional religious and cultural practices

Stop performing the Ghost Dance

Apologize for the killing of George Armstrong Custer

Appear in native dress at pageants and Wild West shows

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7. Why did Native Americans oppose private ownership of land?

They believed that humans are tied to the natural world around them.

They privately owned neither land nor property.

They did not want white Americans to venture west and make claims to tribal lands.

They believed that the natural environment belonged to animals and birds, not humans.

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8. How did the depth at which gold and silver deposits were buried impact the mining process?

It took much longer for individual prospectors to get rich than they had anticipated.

Big businesses with access to industrial mining equipment displaced individual prospectors.

Individual prospectors quickly gave up mining and returned to their homes.

The federal government took control of the mining industry.

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9. Why did the cattle industry experience tremendous growth in the late nineteenth century?

Ranchers were able to exploit black and Mexican cowhands.

A large number of male easterners became interested in experiencing the cowboy life.

The invention of the refrigerated railroad car allowed for meat to be shipped to eastern consumers without spoiling.

Foreign cattle producers stopped sending their beef to the United States.

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10. Participation in the temperance movement inspired many frontier women to

divorce alcohol-dependent husbands.

convert to Mormonism.

campaign for the right to vote.

move their families back to the East.

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11. How did corn farmers respond to falling prices during the 1880s and 1890s?

They grew less corn to force prices up.

They grew more corn to compensate for lower profits.

They used corn for hog feed to reduce the supply.

They sold their farms to commercial growers.

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12. White working-class men in California responded to the influx of Chinese laborers in the 1870s by

encouraging Chinese workers to join labor unions to guarantee fair wages for all.

asking employers to pay the Chinese lower wages because the Chinese were considered inferior workers.

advocating laws to restrict Chinese labor and boycotting Chinese-made goods.

demanding that the immigrants be restricted to working in San Francisco’s Chinatown.