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Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent, 1854–1890. i>Clicker Questions. 1. What did the 1868 Burlingame Treaty guarantee? a. The rights of U.S. missionaries in China and terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to the United States
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Chapter 16:Conquering a Continent, 1854–1890 i>Clicker Questions
1. What did the 1868 Burlingame Treaty guarantee? a. The rights of U.S. missionaries in China and terms for the emigration of Chinese laborers to the United States b. Right of American ships to use two Japanese ports for refueling c. Right of the Sioux Indians to a home in the Black Hills of South Dakota d. Breakup of the reservation system and encouragement to Indians to assimilate into white American culture
2. What role did trade and industrial development play in the adoption of the gold standard by the U.S. government in 1873? a. Adopting the gold standard made payment of tariffs easier. b. The decision was made to lower the value of Spanish silver. c. Adopting the gold standard opened the country to foreign investment. d. The abandonment of silver made trade with China easier.
3. What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do? a. It gave 160 acres to applicants who occupied and improved them. b. It sought to attract families to the East. c. It sought to displace foreign immigrants in the West with white settlers. d. It sold federal lands to raise money for public universities.
4. What was the purpose of the Long Drive? a. To drive the remaining Plains Indians from their homes to reservations b. To complete the longest stretch of the transcontinental railroad c. To bring cattle from Texas to railroad towns so they could be shipped east for food d. To drive cattle on foot from Kansas to St. Louis and Chicago
5. What triggered the migration of large numbers of Scandinavians and Germans in the 1870s? a. The American economic boom in the 1870s b. The lifting of immigration restrictions in the United States c. A severe winter in northern Europe d. A severe depression in northern Europe
6. Who were the Exodusters? a. African Americans who migrated to Kansas in the late 1870s b. Former settlers on the Great Plains who fled east to escape natural disasters of the 1880s c. Settlers who learned dry farming techniques to cope with the arid conditions d. Russian immigrants to the Great Plains who understood the realities of steppe farming
7. What problem plagued homesteaders of the Great Plains in the 1880s? a. Native American raids b. Vast herds of buffalo c. Lack of rain d. Absence of grain storage
8. The creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 was an early important step toward a public commitment to a. conservation. b. preservation. c. emissions control. d. Indian reservations.
9. Why did Indian agents and missionaries create Indian schools off the reservations as part of the effort to solve what was seen as the "Indian problem"? a. They were not allowed by law to build on reservation land. b. They did not think they could re-educate Indian children when still living with their families. c. Most tribal elders opposed education for girls and wanted to teach boys themselves. d. The schools integrated Indian children with white children for quicker assimilation.
10. What explains the popularity of the Ghost Dance movement in the 1880s? a. Its martial arts dimension b. Its connection with drug use c. Its promise of Indian resurrection d. The bridges it built to hostile whites
Answer Key 1. The answer is a. 2. The answer is c. 3. The answer is a. 4. The answer is c. 5. The answer is d. 6. The answer is a. 7. The answer is c. 8. The answer is b. 9. The answer is b. 10. The answer is c.
