Unit 4A Test Name __________________________

_____1) Most of the reforms advocated by the Populist Party were

A) forgotten as the party declined.
B) opposed by the Progressive party.
C) undesirable in a democratic country.
D) incorporated into laws by either the state or federal government.

_____2) The Populist Party was mostly composed of

A) individual farmers.
B) Eastern businessmen.
C) Northern abolitionists.
D) Northern factory owners.

_____3) The Populist Party sought to increase the power of

A) textile workers.
B) industrial unions.
C) agricultural workers.
D) immigrant populations.

_____4) Which of these helped to further the Westward Expansion in the United States
after 1865?
A) California Gold Rush
B) Abolition of Slavery
C) Transcontinental Railroad
D) Lewis and Clark Expedition

_____5) The population growth in the American west following the Civil War was made
possible mainly by
A) railroads.
B) steamboats.
C) the telegraph.
D) the telephone.

_____6) The purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862 was to

A) encourage people to populate U.S. territories west of the Mississippi River.
B) provide people with economic incentives to settle in the territory of Florida.
C) provide free blacks with 40 acres and a mule in former Confederate states.
D) offer former Confederate officers a place to live in return for their loyalty to the U.S.

_____7) What took place at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869?

A) massacre of Lakota Sioux
B) massacre of Cheyenne Indians
 C) completion of Transcontinental Railroad
D) largest silver strike in American history

_____8) Which group of people was primarily responsible for constructing the
Transcontinental Railroad from California eastward?
A) Apache
B) Chinese
C) Irish
D) Sioux

_____9) The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was created to

A) regulate interstate trade and commerce.
B) give slaves land in the former Confederate states.
C) institute the death penalty for crimes against federal officials.
redistribute Indian lands from public to private ownership to help assimilate them
D)
into the US population.

_____10) Which statement BEST describes the Sand Creek Massacre?

A) Sioux warriors destroyed General Custers forces in 1876.
B) 35 miners were killed by Apache Indians during the Gold Rush of 1849.
C) 17 African-American males were killed in a race riot in Oklahoma in 1912.
Roughly 200 Cheyenne men, women, and children were slaughtered by American
D)
soldiers.

_____11) Which of these is the 1890 event that is generally considered to be the last
major violent Indian conflict in North America?
A) Sand Creek Massacre
B) Wounded Knee Massacre
C) Battle of Horseshoe Bend
D) Battle of Little Big Horn

_____12) In order to help expand railroads throughout the country after the Civil War,
Congress
A) brought in thousands of laborers from China.
B) provided railroad companies land free of charge.
C) spent tax money researching steam engine technology.
D) taxed the Confederate States heavily to fund construction.

_____13) Which event had the most IMMEDIATE impact on the Native Americans who
lived on the Great Plains?
A) the invention of the sod house
B) the use of windmills for irrigation
 C) the success of the abolition movement
D) the hunting of buffalo by U.S. citizens

_____14) The most popular migration trend in the United States between the end of the
Civil War and World War I was
A) migration from urban areas to rural areas in search of farm work.
B) migration westward to settle the frontier lands west of the Mississippi River.
African-Americans moving from the big cities of the north back to rural areas in the
C)
south.
emigration from the continental United States to overseas territories like Guam and
D)
Puerto Rico.

_____15) America's westward expansion following the Civil War often led to conflict
between
A) free and slave states.
B) northern and southern states.
C) the Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
D) the federal government and Native Americans.

_____16) Which development replaced wagon trails as the quickest way for settlers to
travel to the west after the Civil War?
A) the "Pony Express"
B) interstate highways
C) the Transcontinental Railroad
D) steamboats on the Mississippi River

_____17) The Transcontinental Railroads that opened up the West had a devastating
effect on
A) cattle ranchers.
B) Native Americans.
merchants on the West coast who relied on trade across the Pacific for their
C)
livelihood.
U.S. soldiers who had just fought in the Civil War and were now transferred to the
D)
West to keep the peace.

_____18) Which organization would have developed as a result of the passage of the
Homestead Act of 1862?
A) Populists
B) The Grange
C) Free Soilers
D) Abolitionists
 _____19)
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887

An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various
reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the
Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.
Based on this excerpt from the Dawes Severalty Act, United States
domestic policy toward Native Americans in the late 1800s made an
attempt to
A) grant them full citizenship and due process.
B) increase the land holdings of western tribes.
C) force Native American Indians to give up their traditional cultures.
give their tribal groups authority over their own governmental
D)
affairs.

_____20) Which was a major source of debate between William

McKinley and William Jennings Bryan in the Election of 1896?
A) foreign policy issues regarding colonial land holdings
B) domestic issues regarding segregation and civil rights
economic issues like bi-metalism, the Gold Standard, and Free
C)
Silver
foreign policy issues involving the acquisition of the Hawaiian
D)
islands

_____21)The building of the transcontinental railroads fuelled the

popular idea of
A) the Gilded Age.
B) Manifest Destiny.
C) "Go West, young man."
D) the United States as the "land of the free.

_____22)
Created a nationwide transportation network that unified the nation.
Allowed for the transportation of larger quantities of goods over longer distances.
Commerce increased between the states.
Products of the manufacturing boom in the East were shipped to the West.
What technological advance is being described?
A) Airplanes
B) Automobiles
C) The Interstate System
D) Transcontinental Railroad
 23) Which legislation is this poster MOST
closely related to?
A) the Dawes Act
B) the Hatch Act
C) the Volstead Act
D) the Pendleton Act

24)The debate between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan in the election of
1896 centered around

differences between imperialist and anti-imperialist

A)
desires.
economic concerns like the gold standard and protective
B)
tariffs.
foreign policy issues regarding U.S. imperialist policies
C)
in the Pacific.
civil rights issues related to segregation and
D) discrimination in the South.

25) Which group of people would have been MOST LIKELY to support Watson and the
Populist Party?
A) poor farmers
B) urban professionals
C) rich industrialists
D) suburban middle class

********EXTRA CREDIT worth 2points: What were 2 working

conditions of factory workers that labor unions fought against?