Instructions: Choose the letter of the best answer. When you are finished, select "Submit."
1. By 1900, the nation's Indian population possessed only
A. 77 million acres.
B. 4 billon acres.
C. 155 million acres.
D. 20 million acres.
2. Which of the following California wilderness areas reverted to federal control in 1890?
A. Hetch Hetchy gorge
B. Yosemite Valley
C. Yellowstone
D. Grand Teton
3. How did the United States initially utilize the Hawaiian islands following the Civil War?
A. as a casino and resort area
B. as a penal colony
C. as a place to refuel and repair whaling ships
D. as a place to create large industrial factories
4. How did the United States persuade the Japanese to open trade relations?
A. It used indirect diplomacy through other nations.
B. It invaded with a large military and took over the nation.
C. It used force.
D. It begged and pleaded directly through U.S. diplomats.
5. Which of the following was not true regarding the Battle of the Little Horn?
A. Custer and his entire command of 210 men were wiped out.
B. Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse took part.
C. The event had a major impact on the Anglo-American population.
D. The Indian victory against the U.S. military was the first of many to come.
6. The Exodusters were
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. The Great Plains were characterized as
A. the Great American Desert.
B. a vast wasteland.
C. a dust bowl.
D. America's Breadbasket.
8. Farmers on the Great Plains responded to drought with dry-farming techniques that included all of the following except
A. irrigation.
B. deep planting.
C. larger acreage.
D. capital investment in machinery.
9. All of the following are true about mining camps except
A. they became the nucleus of larger cities over time.
B. they contained brothels.
C. miners made their own laws at town meetings.
D. mining towns lacked elite-style entertainment.
10. The basis for the Far West's development was
A. fishing along the Pacific coast.
B. tourism in the Rocky Mountain region.
C. the extraction of mineral wealth.
D. transcontinental shipment of dry goods from Pacific ports to eastern cities.
11. Chinese male miners often experienced discrimination through
A. prospector laws made at community meetings.
B. Native American tribal councils.
C. local Chinese opera organizations.
D. Chinese women.
12. The United States took control of which of the following two places after the Mexican-American War?
A. Florida and South Carolina
B. Louisiana and Mississippi
C. Missouri and Maine
D. New Mexico and Arizona.