APUSH UNIT 6 TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
ALREADY PASSED LATEST UPDATED
2025
Q1: An important factor in transforming the nature of American agriculture
after the Civil War was:
A) A) increasing utilization of machinery.
B) a decline in international markets for American farm products.
C) a decrease in the size of the average American farm.
D) the scarcity of land in the Great Plains.
E) the use of slave labor in the Midwest.
Answer: A) increasing utilization of machinery.
Q2: In general, American agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth
century became:
A) less dependent on market forces.
B) less reliant on government intervention.
C) increasingly diversified.
D) more focused on perishable crops.
E) more dependent on market forces.
Answer: E) more dependent on market forces.
Q3: An important factor in the white man's defeat of the Plains tribes was
the:
A) use of the Texas Rangers to exterminate them.
B) inability of the Indians to use guns.
C) general agreement among the Indians not to resist white settlements in the area.
D) destruction of the buffalo herds.
E) Indians' refusal to use the horse.
Answer: D) destruction of the buffalo herds.
Q4: In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Indians on the Great
Plains:
A) often fiercely resisted white settlement in the area.
B) accepted their removal to reservations without resistance.
C) generally believed that the United States government had dealt fairly with them.
, D) eagerly abandoned their nomadic ways for the sedentary ways of the whites.
E) made alliances with Mexican-American settlers who promised to protect them.
Answer: A) often fiercely resisted white settlement in the area.
Q5: All of the following assisted settlers to farm the Great Plains EXCEPT:
A) windmills.
B) sod houses.
C) advanced fertilizers.
D) twine binders.
E) barbed wire.
Answer: C) advanced fertilizers.
Q6: The Dawes Act was designed to:
A) provide Indians with individual land ownership.
B) make Indians dependent on the federal government.
C) help the Indian preserve tribal traditions.
D) guarantee blacks 40 acres and a mule.
E) compensate Indians for past abuses by the whites.
Answer: A) provide Indians with individual land ownership.
Q7: The federal government's Indian policy between 1876 and 1900 was
characterized by:
A) a continuation of the belief that Indian tribes were sovereign nations.
B) a concern for the preservation of a tribal lifestyle among the Indians.
C) a program to protect and maintain the buffalo herds.
D) a movement to end Indian power and culture.
E) an attempt to compensate the Indians for past mistreatment.
Answer: D) a movement to end Indian power and culture.
Q8: The philosophy of the New South advocates stressed:
A) a policy promoting industrialization of the southern economy.
B) rejection of northern investments in the South.
C) the heroic nature of the Confederate veterans.
D) a move toward a socialist economy.
E) a return to the South's agricultural past.
Answer: A) a policy promoting industrialization of the southern economy.
Q9: During the late nineteenth century, the Supreme Court:
A) strongly defended the rights of blacks under the Constitution.
B) declared the concept of "separate but equal" unconstitutional.
ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
ALREADY PASSED LATEST UPDATED
2025
Q1: An important factor in transforming the nature of American agriculture
after the Civil War was:
A) A) increasing utilization of machinery.
B) a decline in international markets for American farm products.
C) a decrease in the size of the average American farm.
D) the scarcity of land in the Great Plains.
E) the use of slave labor in the Midwest.
Answer: A) increasing utilization of machinery.
Q2: In general, American agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth
century became:
A) less dependent on market forces.
B) less reliant on government intervention.
C) increasingly diversified.
D) more focused on perishable crops.
E) more dependent on market forces.
Answer: E) more dependent on market forces.
Q3: An important factor in the white man's defeat of the Plains tribes was
the:
A) use of the Texas Rangers to exterminate them.
B) inability of the Indians to use guns.
C) general agreement among the Indians not to resist white settlements in the area.
D) destruction of the buffalo herds.
E) Indians' refusal to use the horse.
Answer: D) destruction of the buffalo herds.
Q4: In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Indians on the Great
Plains:
A) often fiercely resisted white settlement in the area.
B) accepted their removal to reservations without resistance.
C) generally believed that the United States government had dealt fairly with them.
, D) eagerly abandoned their nomadic ways for the sedentary ways of the whites.
E) made alliances with Mexican-American settlers who promised to protect them.
Answer: A) often fiercely resisted white settlement in the area.
Q5: All of the following assisted settlers to farm the Great Plains EXCEPT:
A) windmills.
B) sod houses.
C) advanced fertilizers.
D) twine binders.
E) barbed wire.
Answer: C) advanced fertilizers.
Q6: The Dawes Act was designed to:
A) provide Indians with individual land ownership.
B) make Indians dependent on the federal government.
C) help the Indian preserve tribal traditions.
D) guarantee blacks 40 acres and a mule.
E) compensate Indians for past abuses by the whites.
Answer: A) provide Indians with individual land ownership.
Q7: The federal government's Indian policy between 1876 and 1900 was
characterized by:
A) a continuation of the belief that Indian tribes were sovereign nations.
B) a concern for the preservation of a tribal lifestyle among the Indians.
C) a program to protect and maintain the buffalo herds.
D) a movement to end Indian power and culture.
E) an attempt to compensate the Indians for past mistreatment.
Answer: D) a movement to end Indian power and culture.
Q8: The philosophy of the New South advocates stressed:
A) a policy promoting industrialization of the southern economy.
B) rejection of northern investments in the South.
C) the heroic nature of the Confederate veterans.
D) a move toward a socialist economy.
E) a return to the South's agricultural past.
Answer: A) a policy promoting industrialization of the southern economy.
Q9: During the late nineteenth century, the Supreme Court:
A) strongly defended the rights of blacks under the Constitution.
B) declared the concept of "separate but equal" unconstitutional.
