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Return to American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context 3e Student Resources
Multiple Choice Chapter 16 Self-Quiz 2
Schaller, 3e_MC 16.2
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How did Theodore Roosevelt react to the 1890 census report that the western frontier was officially "closed"?
He took it as an enormous accomplishment.
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He welcomed it with a sense of relief.
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He viewed this development with great anxiety.
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He shrugged off the report as an exaggeration.
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Which of the following was not a factor in the lack of Mexican control over its northern provinces that would later become New Mexico, Arizona, and California?
politics
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bureaucratic incompetence
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economics
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Anglo-American migrants
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Which of the following cities was on El Camino Real, along which migrant laborers moved from Mexico into the American Southwest?
Tijuana
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San Diego
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Cabos San Lucas
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Chihuahua
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What did geology professor and Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell warn about in his 1878
Report on the Lands of the Arid Region
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He thought the local Indian tribes far too dangerous.
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He warned of jealous North Mexican rancheros.
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He considered the flora and fauna of the region unappealing and harmful.
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He thought the climate of the region did not allow for traditional settlements.
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Which of the following best summarized the "dark side" of the mythical West in American History?
It justified the mistreatment of Indians and their ancestral homelands.
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It made light of the presence of chattel slavery in the American Far West.
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It downplayed the dangers of radical politics in western cities.
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It failed to show that the West suffered from an aging and shrinking population.
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What did southern blacks and Chinese workers in the American West have in common in the late 19th century?
They worked in the cotton fields.
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They had yet to gain the right to vote.
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They frequently faced white lynch mobs.
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They developed an extensive underground drug economy.
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Which of the following "Robber Barons" was known as the "Empire Builder"?
James J. Hill
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Collis P. Huntington
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J. P. Morgan
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John D. Rockefeller
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Populist Party activist Mary Elizabeth Lease and her husband lost everything
in the Galveston hurricane of 1900.
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in the Chicago fire of 1871.
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in the economic crash of 1873.
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in a misguided speculation on silver.
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What made Galveston a good distribution point for the burgeoning cattle industry in the late 19th century?
its established oil industry
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its large population of cowboys
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its long island cattle range
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its large population of skilled butchers
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Who did Custer and the Seventh Cavalry encounter in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876?
the Nez Perce
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the Hunkpapa Sioux
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the Wampanoag
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the Comanches
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In 1870, Congress supported assimilation with a $100,000 appropriation for the creation of federal
industrial schools.
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reservations.
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casinos.
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Indian trade centers.
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What did British-Australian officials do after they had failed to secure Aboriginal land in negotiations?
They abandoned the concept of settlement.
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They gave Aborigines equal civil rights.
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They questioned their own notions of superiority.
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They declared the area
Terra Nullius
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How did Congress belatedly commemorate the extinct buffalo herds in 1913?
It created a battalion of buffalo soldiers.
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It introduced buffalos into local zoos.
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It coined the "buffalo nickel."
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It formed the D.C. Buffalosâa football team.
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The Sierra Club is best understood as
a special interest lobby for the lumber industry.
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an example of growing national concern for the value of nature.
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a group of Emerson-inspired idealists with no grasp of politics.
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an elite gathering of middle-class whites concerned about their water quality.
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