AMH2020 EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
From the choices below, check the ones that are primary sources. - ANS Letter
Memoir
Oral history
Photo
Diary
Law case
What explains the popularity of Wild West shows? - ANS All of the above are true.
What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act? - ANS splintered vast native
American reservations into individual family homesteads
What was the purpose of Western cattle drives? - ANS to bring cattle to eastern markets,
mostly through railroad hubs
What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West? - ANS Railroad work
How did President Lincoln respond to the Sioux Uprising? - ANS attempted to commute the
sentences of captured Indians in order to maintain peace
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, General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 was intended to do which of the
following?
Question 9 options: - ANS set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads for
freed people
The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following? - ANS promised the removal of federal
troops from the South
Which group received more land from the government? - ANS railroad companies
When did Reconstruction begin? - ANS before the war ended
What did the United States demand from the Comanche leading to the Red River War? -
ANS The US demanded that they settle on government reservations.
In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry? -
ANS Chicago
How did railroads transform the American economy? - ANS All of the above
Which census first revealed that the majority of Americans were living in cities? - ANS 1920
By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent
of the population? - ANS 60 percent
All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts,
languages, and traditions EXCEPT: - ANS Rotary clubs
All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT: -
ANS They sought to move away from the South's dependence on cotton, believing that
agricultural diversification would lead to economic development.
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
From the choices below, check the ones that are primary sources. - ANS Letter
Memoir
Oral history
Photo
Diary
Law case
What explains the popularity of Wild West shows? - ANS All of the above are true.
What was the purpose of the Dawes General Allotment Act? - ANS splintered vast native
American reservations into individual family homesteads
What was the purpose of Western cattle drives? - ANS to bring cattle to eastern markets,
mostly through railroad hubs
What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West? - ANS Railroad work
How did President Lincoln respond to the Sioux Uprising? - ANS attempted to commute the
sentences of captured Indians in order to maintain peace
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026.
, General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 was intended to do which of the
following?
Question 9 options: - ANS set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads for
freed people
The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following? - ANS promised the removal of federal
troops from the South
Which group received more land from the government? - ANS railroad companies
When did Reconstruction begin? - ANS before the war ended
What did the United States demand from the Comanche leading to the Red River War? -
ANS The US demanded that they settle on government reservations.
In the late nineteenth century, which American city had the largest meat processing industry? -
ANS Chicago
How did railroads transform the American economy? - ANS All of the above
Which census first revealed that the majority of Americans were living in cities? - ANS 1920
By 1890, in most large northern cities, immigrants and their children amounted to what percent
of the population? - ANS 60 percent
All of the following groups provided cultural space for immigrants to maintain their arts,
languages, and traditions EXCEPT: - ANS Rotary clubs
All of the following statements regarding the boosters of the New South are true EXCEPT: -
ANS They sought to move away from the South's dependence on cotton, believing that
agricultural diversification would lead to economic development.
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