The “Long Walk” refers to the forced march and imprisonment of this group during the Civil War. A) Santee Sioux B) Cherokee Confederate sympathizers C) Navajo D) Comanche ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
After Lee’s defeat at __________, a Confederate victory grew increasingly unlikely. A) Shiloh B) Gettysburg C) Chancellorsville D) Atlanta ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why did Lincoln not free all slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation? A) He had no real interest in ending slavery. B) He did not want to lose the support of conservatives in the border states. C) He thought that doing so would be unconstitutional. D) He thought most slaves were unready for freedom. ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Radical Republicans intended the Tenure of Office Act to limit the powers of __________. A) the planter Democrats B) President Johnson C) the Supreme Court D) Congress ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The basic cause of the economic depression in 1873 was __________. A) the collapse of the stock market B) rising farm prices C) commercial overexpansion and speculation D) global inflation ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The First Reconstruction Act divided the South into five __________. A) military districts B) railroad divisions C) federal governmental divisions D) federal court districts ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Under the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Sioux __________. A) were granted the Black Hills “as long as the grass shall grow” B) promised “to fight no more forever” C) were forced onto a small reservation in Oklahoma D) agreed to move west “as far as the setting sun” ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Cattle ranchers responded to the growing numbers of farmers and sheepherders in the West in the 1880s by __________. A) lobbying Congress to slow migration to the West B) reaching amicable agreements with the newcomers C) getting out of the cattle business and joining the farmers and sheepherders D) destroying fences put up by the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The reformers’ intention in the reservation policy and the Dawes Act was to __________. A) protect Indian culture B) curtail white settlement C) restore Indian-governed tribal lands D) assimilate individual Indians into white culture ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
How did life change in the Mexican borderlands over the course of the second half of the nineteenth century? How did the Mexicano community on the American side of the border respond to these changes? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; relations between Mexicanos and Anglos; the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
