Ch. 19 Quiz
1. The land that the U.S. government allowed a Native American tribe to settle on was called?
A. A reservation
B. Public land
C. A land cession
D. Indian Territory
2. What happened when gold was discovered in the Black Hills?
A. Thousands of miners ignored Sioux rights and flooded Sioux land.
B. Miners battled Sioux for the right to gold in the Battle of Sand Creek.
C. The government claimed that it had the right to all of the gold.
D. Gold became so common that its value dropped.
3. What did Grange cooperatives do for farmers?
a. They offered insurance against steel play and windmill damage.
b. They provided farm land for cooperative farmers to cultivate.
c. They asked states to regulate railroad freight and storage charges.
d. They shared their land and houses in a communal fashion.
4. What was a vigilante group?
a. A group that studies the stars.
b. A group that watched out for Indians that left the reservations.
c. An outlaw group that included Jesse and Frank James.
d. A group that took the law into their own hands, sometimes even lynching a person.
5. What did Geronimo and Chief Joseph have in common?
a. They attracted followers through their visions of a new age without whites.
b. They fled rather than move onto reservations.
c. They developed new farming techniques to improve life on the reservation.
d. All of the above are true.
6. What attracted a group of African Americans called “Exodusters” to Kansas?
a. Under the Homestead Act, they could own 160 acres of land there.
b. They were attracted to the rich supply of sod in Kansas.
c. They wanted to grow prairie corn, which only grew in Kansas.
d. Kansas had more trees than Tennessee.
7. What did Populists NOT supports?
a. Free silver to expand the money supply.
b. Increased shipping rates
c. Government ownership of railroads
d. Shorter working hours
8. What was NOT true of women’s roles in the West?
a. They worked hard and often faced loneliness on homesteads.
b. They were often their family’s doctors-setting broken bones and delivering babies.
c. They spent most of their time holding cooking contests t at their town’s general store.
d. Women in Wyoming were so respected that Wyoming only agreed to join the Union if women could
vote.
9. What happened after prospectors hit “pay dirt” at Comstock Lode in Nevada?
a. Nearby Virginia City, Nevada, became a boomtown.
b. Ghost towns developed across Nevada.
c. The mining shaft exploded.
d. All of the above are true.
10. How did railroads upset farmers?
a. Railroads charged high prices to farmers to transport and store grain.
b. Trains ran so late that grain rarely made it to market on time.
c. Farmers’ crops were ruined when railroads built on their lands.
d. Railroads rarely shipped crops to the correct location.
11. Which did NOT cause the end of the long drives of cattle?
a. Barbed wire
b. Many of the cowboys left and decided to mine for gold instead
c. Thousands of cattle froze to death during a cold winter
d. The price of cattle went down from $30 to $7 a head
12. Why did the Dawes Act fail?
a. Native Americans did not want to become schoolteachers unless they could pass on their traditional
beliefs.
b. Most native Americans did not want to give up their traditional ways and become farmers.
c. Many Native Americans were against railroads in their hunting grounds.
d. Followers of Wovoka rejected this Christian missionary program.
13. How did the U.S. government responds to the Paiute prophet Wovoka’s followers?
a. They opened a special Ghost Dance exhibit in Washington, D.C., to honor Wovoka’s peacemaking
attempts.
b. They feared Ghost Dancers were preparing for war, so they killed them in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
c. President Hayes invited Wovoka to sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
d. The government sent Christian missionaries to convert Ghost Dancers.
14. Why did the government step up military action against Native Americans after the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
a. They were thrilled by Custer’s victory, as they saw the Battle of the Little Bighorn as a rebellion against
the Dawes Act.
b. They feared that warring Native Americans would head toward Washington.
c. They were shocked by the Sioux and Cheyenne victory, which destroyed George A. Custer and his
troops.
d. They heard that Custer was outnumbered, so they sent troops tohelp him.
15. What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
a. Sioux and Cheyenne warriors attacked construction workers.
b. Colorado militia fired on a peaceful Cheyenne village.
c. General Custer’s troops killed Geronimo and his Apache followers.
d. General Custer’s troops killed an entire village of Sioux.
16. What did Chief Joseph do when the government broke a treaty and tried to force the Nez Perce to sell their land
and live on a strip of territory in Idaho?
a. He and his followers fled toward Canada across 1,000 miles of rugged terrain until U.S. troops caught
them near the Canadian border.
b. He joined with U.S. officials in creating a new reservation which would allow Native Americans to
continue their way of life.
c. He fought the U.S. army in the bloody Battle of the Nez Perce.
d. All of the above are true.
17. What was lasting effect of the mining boom?
a. Lake Mead was developed as a place to store water run-off from mines.
b. Ghost towns still have hidden deposits of gold dust.
c. Nevada, Colorado, and South Dakota grew rapidly and gained statehood.
d. Women were given the right to vote.
MATCHING
Cowtown was killed in The Battle of the Little Bighorn
Vaquero A place where cows were put onto railroads
Buffalo soldier The area of land between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains
Sodbuster The Democratic nominee for president-supported free silver policy
Frontier Cowboy that came from Mexico
William Cody Nickname for African Americans who served in the army
Colonel George Custer Unsettled or sparsely settled land occupied mostly by Native Americans
William Jennings Bryan Pioneers that made their houses out of prairie grass
Great Plains Buffalo hunter that was known for his Wild West Show.