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Chapter 17 Summative Quiz

Multiple Choice

Choose the letter of the best answer.

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1. Which statement describes the U.S. governmentís Indian policy during the middle of the nineteenth century?

The government was more willing than ever to grant Indians the rights enjoyed by whites.

The government cleared Indian land for white settlement but lived up to most of the promises it made to the Indians.

The government pushed Indians off their lands and into reservations.

The government attempted to prevent white settlers from taking more Indian land.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

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2. Why did the Plains Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which ceded some of their land to allow the passage of wagon trains?

They depended on trade with white settlers.

They wanted to protect their favored status with the U.S. government.

They believed it would help them to displace weaker tribes.

They hoped to preserve their culture in the face of white onslaught.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

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3. Which statement describes life on the Indian reservations?

The government allowed Indians to maintain their cultural practices.

Poverty and starvation stalked Indian reservations.

The government assaulted Indian culture but did give Indians sufficient rations.

Indians were able to establish their own independent governments.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

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4. What occurred under the "outing system" of the 1880s?

Young children from rural areas were sent to live with families in cities.

Indian children were forced to live with white families over summer vacation.

Indian children who did not succeed at school were returned to their tribes.

White men who had taken Indian wives were asked to leave the reservation.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

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5. What was the outcome of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887?

Expansion of the area covered by the reservation system to include all Native Americans

Division of reservations and allotment of individual plots of land to Native Americans

Prohibition of white settlement in Oklahoma

Restoration of much of the land in the Southwest to Native Americans

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

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6. What was the Ghost Dance?

A religious ritual that was supposed to lead to the destruction of whites and the return of the buffalo.

A ritual performed by the Paiutes in an effort to contact their great spirit leaders for guidance.

A signal that Native Americans of the Great Plains had resigned themselves to white domination.

A ritual that the Sioux men performed as they were preparing for battle against white Americans.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is A.

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7. What was the easiest way to get rich in the American silver mining industry?

Working regularly in a variety of different mines

Laboring in a large mining company for a period of years

Sifting through brackish sand in search of precious metals

Selling claims to land or forming mining companies and selling stock

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

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8. What impact did the discovery of precious metals on the Comstock have for Native Americans?

Tremendous economic prosperity

Destruction of their land

The obliteration of their culture

Almost no effect on their daily lives

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

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9. Which of the following describes the changes experienced by the Californios between 1850 and 1880?

Their numbers increased from 19 percent to 82 percent of the stateís total population.

They solidified their claim to historic land.

Their percentage of the state's population fell by more than 60 percent.

They began their steady assimilation into American life.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

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10. Which of the following describes how life in the agrarian West compared to life in the mining West?

Slow paced

Free of hardship

Equally exploitative

Free of economic competition

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

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11. How did the landscape of the trans-Mississippi West change between 1870 and 1900?

The region proved to be a haven for family farming.

It was populated predominantly by former slaves.

Mining made it the country's largest industrial region.

Family farms gave way to commercial farming.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

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12. What did the state and federal governments do to encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War?

They gave railroad companies 180 million acres of public land.

They gave railroads rights-of-way across homesteaders' land.

They sold land to railroad companies at bargain prices.

They reclaimed acreage already settled by farmers and sold it to the railroads.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is A.