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Westward Expansion: Practice Quiz
1)
American Progress, John Gast, 1872
This painting BEST relates what social philosophy?
A) Gilded Age
B) Great Awakening
C) Manifest Destiny
D) Women's Suffrage
2) Known as the “sod buster,” this innovation greatly improved farming capabilities in the
19th century.
A) wind mill
B) steel plow
C) steam shovel
D) mechanical hoe
3) Late 19th-century technological advances in farm production meant that less farm
laborers were needed. Many of the farmers who lost their jobs were African Americans.
Which statement describes what happened to the displaced farmers?
A) African Americans were easily able to find jobs in the North.
B) Many went on to establish their own farms and provide competition.
C) Many African Americans moved to the north and west to cities such as Chicago and
Detroit.
D) A few farmers migrated but the majority stayed in the South to wait for other types of
employment.
4) In the early nineteenth century, why did the steps to industrialize take place in New
England as opposed to the South?
A) Agriculture in New England was not highly profitable.
B) The South did not economically benefit from cash crops.
C) Southerners were fearful of slaves working in factories.
D) New Englanders had an abundance of slaves to work in factories.
5) The ending of the Pullman Strike is significant because it
A) demonstrated unions’ superiority and solidarity.
B) demonstrated the US government’s pro-business alliances.
C) showed that the US government was unwilling to get involved in business matters.
D) showed that unions and management could work together for the benefit of each other.
6) ‘Standard gauge,’ ‘standard time,’ and the Pullman Car all had a tremendous impact on
what industry?
A) airline
B) automobile
C) maritime
D) railroad
7) The following all contributed to the Populist "revolt" EXCEPT
A) protective tariffs made the items farmers needed more expensive.
B) maintaining the gold standard for our currency resulted in low farm prices.
C) the inability to get Homestead acts passed to provide cheap land in the west.
D) the farmers could not get any real aid from either the Democratic or Republican parties.
8) This method of communication became vitally important by the end of the nineteenth
century because of its use in coordinating rail travel.
A) telegraph
B) telephone
C) television
D) Pony Express
9) Successful attempts to make the internal combustion engine more efficient in the 19th
century resulted in an increase in the demand for
A) coal.
B) iron ore.
C) petroleum.
D) arable land.
10) Diplomatic relations between American settlers and the Mexican government were
increasing tense in the 1830s. All of the following were causes of this tension EXCEPT
A) the requirement that the Texans become Catholics.
B) increasing number of American immigrants in Mexican territory.
C) disagreement about trade tariffs between the United States and Mexico.
D) attempts by the Mexican government to restrict the importation of slaves.
Explain the impact and challenges of westward movement, including the major land acquisitions, people’s
motivations for moving west, railroad construction, the displacement of Native Americans, and the its impact
on the developing American character.
11)
Which area on the map represents the region where sharecropping was the dominant form
of agricultural production in the late-1800s?
A)
B)
C)
D)
12) The end of the “Cattle Kingdoms” and the open range was caused by all of these
EXCEPT
A) the Civil War.
B) fenced property.
C) government regulations.
D) an increased numbers of farmers .
13)
Which area on the map represents the region MOST associated with wheat production in the
late 1800s?
A)
B)
C)
D)
14) The beginning of the Industrial Age in the United States is MOST associated with which
era?
A) early-1800s
B) early-1900s
C) late-1700
D) late-1800s
15) Which innovation had the GREATEST impact on the availability of fresh beef on the US
east coast in the mid-19th century?
A) barbed wire
B) the steel plow
C) the steam ship
D) the refrigerated box car
Explain how the Monroe Doctrine and the concept of manifest destiny affected United States’ relationships
with foreign powers, including the role of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War.
16) Which is an example of the concept of Manifest Destiny in action?
A) the Compromise of 1850
B) the Missouri Compromise
C) the Transatlantic Slave Trade
D) the annexation of Mexican territory
17) Whose message to Congress on May 11, 1846, stated that “Mexico has passed the
boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon
American soil”?
A) President James K. Polk
B) President Andrew Jackson
C) President John Quincy Adams
D) President Theodore Roosevelt
18)
This cartoon refers to the Monroe Doctrine issued in 1823. The Monroe Doctrine was
intended to prevent European expansion in
A) China.
B) north Africa.
C) South America
D) southeast Asia.
19)
·Battle of Buena Vista
·Siege of Veracruz
·Battle of Churubusco
·Battle of Mexico City
What do ALL of these Mexican-American War events have in common?
A) All of them were decisive victories for the Mexican Army.
B) All of them were decisive victories for the American Army.
C) All of them were American attempts to bring an immediate end to the war.
D) All of them placed Mexican General Santa Anna against U.S. General Winfield Scott.
Compare economic development in different regions of the country during the early nineteenth century,
including agriculture in the South, industry and finance in the North, and the development of new resources in
the West.
20) Which of these would have had the LEAST effect on late nineteenth century American
industrialization?
A) the abolition movement
B) large numbers of immigrants
C) improvements in communications
D) the development of better transportation systems
21) Which of the these was an outcome of the Industrial Revolution?
A) rise of monopolies
B) more skilled labor
C) a decline in union membership
D) population shift from urban to rural
22) The use of ‘sod homes’ on the Great Plains was made necessary because of what
reason?
A) Indians showed them how to construct sod homes.
B) There was very little time to build anything else.
C) People possessed knowledge of no other methods of home construction.
D) Timber was almost unavailable, leaving sod homes as the only real option.
23) Which region of the United States was the center of the nation's industrial and financial
resources in the early 1800's?
A) The West
B) The North
C) The South
D) The Mid-Atlantic