Letter
Memoir
Oral history
From the choices below, Photo
check the ones that are Diary
primary sources. Law case
All of the above are true.
What explains the popularity
of Wild West shows?
splintered vast native American reservations into individual
What was the purpose of the family homesteads
Dawes General Allotment
Act?
to bring cattle to eastern markets, mostly through railroad
What was the purpose of
hubs
Western cattle drives?
Railroad work
What economic opportunity
drew the most migrants to
the West?
attempted to commute the sentences of captured Indians in
How did President Lincoln order to maintain peace
respond to the Sioux
Uprising?
set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads
General William T. for freed people
Sherman's Special Field
Order No. 15 was intended
to do which of the
following?
Question 9 options:
promised the removal of federal troops from the South
The Compromise of 1877
did which of the following?
railroad companies
Which group received more
land from the government?
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When did Reconstruction before the war ended
begin?
The US demanded that they settle on government
What did the United States reservations.
demand from the Comanche
leading to the Red River
War?
Chicago
In the late nineteenth
century, which American city
had the largest meat
processing industry?
All of the above
How did railroads transform
the American economy?
1920
Which census first revealed
that the majority of
Americans were living in
cities?
60 percent
By 1890, in most large
northern cities, immigrants
and their children amounted
to what percent of the
population?
Rotary clubs
All of the following groups
provided cultural space for
immigrants to maintain their
arts, languages, and
traditions EXCEPT:
They sought to move away from the South's dependence on
All of the following cotton, believing that agricultural diversification would
statements regarding the lead to economic development.
boosters of the New South
are true EXCEPT:
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Five thousand
From 1880 to 1950,
approximately ______
African Americans were
murdered by white mobs.
agriculture*
What was the most important
aspect of the southern
economy in the late
nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries?
The development of a led to an integrated national economic system
national railway system
sharecropping ---- wage labor (NOT THE ANSWERS)
What was the most common Chattel slavery OR Apprenticeship (possible answers)
labor pattern in postbellum
cotton agriculture?
State welfare and private charity would lead to
Which of the following most degeneration by perpetuating the survival of the weak.
accurately describes the
arguments of Social
Darwinism?
James Weaver
In 1892, whom did the
Populist Party nominate as
their candidate for president?
It welcomed all workers regardless of race or gender.
What was most unique about
the IWW?
Which organization gave rise the Farmers' Alliance
to the Populist Party?
all of the above
What tactics were used to
disenfranchise black voters?
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