Test 2: Key Topics in U.S. History for Student Success

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 1/18 Test 2 Due Jan 9 at 11:59pm Points 30 Questions 30 Available Jan 9 at 12am - Jan 9 at 11:59pm 23 hours and 59 minutes Time Limit 60 Minutes Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 32 minutes 30 out of 30  Correct answers are hidden. Score for this quiz: 30 out of 30 Submitted Jan 9 at 6:04pm This attempt took 32 minutes. 1 / 1 pts Question 1 Who led the American Railway Union in the Pullman Strike? (Ch. 18) Terrence Powderly James Blaine James Weaver Chester Arthur Eugene V. Debs 1 / 1 pts Question 2

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 2/18 Which of the following was not one of the principles advocated by Terence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor? (Ch. 18) Immigration restrictions. Widespread and aggressive use of strikes. Temperance. The admission of blacks into local Knights of Labor assemblies. Producer and consumer cooperatives. 1 / 1 pts Question 3 Which of the following was not one of the features of Lakota Sioux culture? (Ch. 17) Children were subject to harsh discipline and physical punishment to teach them obedience and respect. It included ceremonies in which young men "sacrificed" themselves through self-torture to gain access to spiritual power. It included a belief in a hierarchy of plant and animal spirits whose help could be invoked through the Sun Dance. They adapted to the environment. It included the belief that life is a series of circles±the circles of relatives, band, tribe, and nation.

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 3/18 1 / 1 pts Question 4 What was the result of the Haymarket Square bombing in 1886? (Ch. 18) It resulted in the election of several German-born anarchists to the Illinois state legislature. It led to increased sympathy for workers and unions. It led to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act. It led to the arrest of the police who fired on the crowd. It resulted in intensified animosity toward labor unions. 1 / 1 pts Question 5 Which of the following statements accurately describes most Great Plains Indians in the mid-nineteenth century? (Ch. 17) They lived in permanent villages and did some farming. They adjusted quickly to reservation life because they were used to living in tribal communities. They lived in nuclear family units and seldom saw others beyond their immediate relatives.

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1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 4/18 They hunted the migratory buffalo herds and utilized the all of the animal's body. They lived in cities with populations of 50,000 to 75,000. 1 / 1 pts Question 6 Who led a raid against Brownsville, Texas in 1859? (Ch. 17) Eric Estrada Don Delivega Juan Cortina César Chavez Alberto dé Léon 1 / 1 pts Question 7 Where did a massacre of Indians occur in 1890? (Ch. 17) Fort Laramie Dead Man's Pass Red River Wounded Knee Little Bighorn

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 5/18 1 / 1 pts Question 8 Which of the following was not a reason the days of the open range and great cattle drives came to an end after the mid-1880s? (Ch. 17) Severe winters and dry summers in 1885 and 1886 caused severe hardships. The ranges were overgrazed and too crowded. Cattle prices declined. The expansion of the railroads throughout the West cut across grazing areas. The demand for beef declined as more people turned to cheaper food. 1 / 1 pts Question 9 President of the Central Pacific Railroad Charles Crocker's testimony about Chinese workers and immigrants expressed (Ch. 18) a facility with the Chinese language a humanitarian desire to help them make a better life for themselves in the United States. a bias in his inability to understand and treat the Chinese as individuals.

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 6/18 a fervent passion for ending discrimination against the Chinese. a fervent passion for ending discrimination against the Chinese. a fervent passion for ending discrimination against the Chinese. a fervent passion for ending discrimination against the Chinese. a fervent passion for ending discrimination against the Chinese. an unbending racist desire to have them all deported. 1 / 1 pts Question 10 Which of these individuals: a president, a painter, and a writer were deeply influenced by the frontier myth, enjoyed the physical challenges of the West, and rejected the constraints of the genteel urban world of their youth? (Ch. 17) Benjamin Harrison, Frederic Church, Hamlin Garland Rutherford B. Hayes, Asher Durand, Theodore Dreiser Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Remington, Owen Wister Grover Cleveland, Jackson Pollock, Helen Hunt Jackson Franklin Roosevelt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry James 1 / 1 pts Question 11 The Homestead Act (Ch. 17) was devised by Massachusetts senator Henry Homestead to break up Indian reservations and provide 160 acres of land to Indians for farming.

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1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 7/18 offered 160 acres of land to any settler who would pay a $10 registration fee, live on the land for five years, and cultivate it. created reservations to which Indians were forced to move. granted ex-soldiers from Homestead, Pennsylvania, a parcel of western land as payment for service during the Civil War. offered 40 acres and a mule to former slaves who relocated to the frontier after the Civil War. 1 / 1 pts Question 12 The 19th century conservation movement (Ch. 17) attempted to educate the public about the destruction of the environment. lobbied against the continual flooding of the Sacramento River. secretly funded entrepreneurs to avert government legislation. emphasized the abundance of western land. destroyed the old legend of the western frontier as the seedbed of American virtues. 1 / 1 pts Question 13

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 8/18 "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show (Buffalo Bill) (Ch. 17) was more successful in Europe than the U.S. counteracted the dime-novel image of the West. presented mock battles of army scouts and Indians as morality dramas of good versus evil. was actually the brainchild of Helen Hunt Jackson. established the model that county fairs would follow in programming annual livestock contests. 1 / 1 pts Question 14 As more and more women entered the paid work force, their work outside the home was (Ch. 18) enabling them to earn almost as much as their male counterparts. almost exclusively as domestic servants. understood by businessmen and portrayed by the popular press as temporary. not essential to household income. solely the product of new technologies such as the typewriter or telephone.

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 9/18 1 / 1 pts Question 15 Frederick Jackson Turner was (Ch. 17) a painter of American western landscapes. the author of Ramona, a tale of doomed love set on a California Spanish- Mexican ranch. the author of Roughing It, a mining novel. a one-armed veteran of the Civil War who charted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. a historian who put forth the thesis that the frontier was the key to the American character. 1 / 1 pts Question 16 Which of the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s? (Ch. 18) Mexican immigrants Irish Catholic immigrants Jewish immigrants Russian immigrants

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1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 10/18 Chinese immigrants 1 / 1 pts Question 17 How did industrialization affect skilled craftsmen? (Ch. 18) The tension of assembly-line work caused formerly sober, disciplined craftsmen to drink on the job. Industrialization allowed skilled craftsman to flourish as many people came to realize the value of products produced by hand. Skilled craftsmen were transformed into "aristocrats" in the world of labor. Skilled craftsmen were needed to operate machinery. Subdividing the manufacture of a product into smaller jobs meant that an individual no longer manufactured an entire product. 1 / 1 pts Question 18 What did Karl Marx argue? (Ch. 18) that only by introducing Biblical principles into the workplace could there be harmony between business owners and their workers.

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 11/18 that capitalists would eventually bring about their own destruction by driving impoverished workers to revolt. that workers who knew they would be given a competitive wage would be the most loyal to a company. that individual economic theories were only as effective as those who practiced them. that a classless society would emerge when capitalism triumphed around the world. that a classless society would emerge when capitalism triumphed around the world. 1 / 1 pts Question 19 Mary Harris Jones (Ch. 18) was a leader of the United Mine Workers of America who expanded its membership by stressing the need to fight for families. lobbied for reform in how the mentally handicapped were treated. assassinated James Garfield in 1881. persuaded Andrew Carnegie that well paid workers would be the best workers. founded to the Women's Christian Temperance Union to try and reduce drinking in the laboring class.

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 12/18 1 / 1 pts Question 20 Which of the following describes a method that many late nineteenth century eastern reformers wanted to use to deal with Native Americans? (Ch. 17) They wanted to build special schools so that Indians could study and pass on their native cultures. They wanted to allow them to roam the western prairies, far from urban corruption and westernizing influences. They wanted to move them to cities so that they could be modernized and Americanized. They wanted to put Indian men into the army so that they would learn the discipline of the white man. They wanted to civilize and Christianize them, teach them English, and destroy their native culture. 1 / 1 pts Question 21 How successful was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? (Ch. 18)

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1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 13/18 Its success was limited, since only 18 suits were brought by the government from 1890 to 1904. All of these choices. None of these choices. Companies like Standard Oil got around it by reorganizing as holding companies. It did manage to hit some companies that acted as monopolies or restrained trade with fines of up to $5000. 1 / 1 pts Question 22 Which of the following issues did not impede the growth of unions in the late 19th century? (Ch. 18) Lack of interest on the part of workers because their real wages were rising and conditions were improving Limited financial resources Divisions between skilled craftsmen and common laborers Ethnic and religious diversity of the working class Divisions over tactics

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 14/18 1 / 1 pts Question 23 What did Adam Smith argue in The Wealth of Nations? (Ch. 18) Wealth should be distributed evenly throughout society. A single tax would solve the nation's uneven distribution of wealth. Inexorable natural laws controlled the social order. Self-interest acted as an "invisible hand" in the marketplace, automatically regulating the supply of and demand for services. Mechanization would become the "invisible hand" and automation would eliminate human labor. 1 / 1 pts Question 24 Whose campaign to protect the wilderness led to the establishment of Yosemite National Park and the founding of the Sierra Club? (Ch. 17) Hamlin Garland John Wesley Powell John Muir Owen Wister Joseph G. McCoy

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 15/18 1 / 1 pts Question 25 Horatio Alger influenced American society by (Ch. 18) organizing workers into the National Labor Union. convincing many Americans that the Anglo-Saxon race was superior to all others. leading a movement to expand public education to include all children in the United States. propagating the "rags to riches" idea. describing the perilous conditions in factories and lobbied Congress to regulate them. 1 / 1 pts Question 26 The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to (Ch. 17) provide Indians with the capital necessary to build a diversified economy. inspire greater tribal unity. turn Indians into individual landowners and farmers and to undermine tribal bonds. treat Indians as equals to white men.

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1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 16/18 destroy Indian tribes by allowing the greater use of force by the military. 1 / 1 pts Question 27 What role was Deseret to play for Mormons? (Ch. 17) It was a new country that Brigham Young and the Mormons tried to create. It was the location where their religion was first established. It was a sacred word, applied only to the most devout of the faith. It was the last name of the original founder of the Mormon religion. It was a place of worship for newcomers to the faith. 1 / 1 pts Question 28 At the end of the Civil War, what communications system did the railroads use to coordinate their complex flow of rail cars? (Ch. 18) The Pony Express Text messaging The internet The telephone The magnetic telegraph

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 17/18 1 / 1 pts Question 29 How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s? (Ch. 18) Southern cotton mills hired mostly single women. Southern cotton mills used traditional handicraft methods rather than machinery to produce cloth. Southern cotton mills were located in the countryside rather than cities. Southern mill workers were paid better than northern mill workers. Southern cotton mills tended to be smaller, with safer working conditions. 1 / 1 pts Question 30 Which of the following characterized frontier communities? (Ch. 17) widespread homosexuality because of a shortage of women on the frontier. deep suspicion of neighbors or any outsiders who were not kin. matriarchal leadership, because the men tended to be away from home for months at a time.

1/9/24, 6:04 PM Test 2: History of the United States: 2024SPI-HIST-017B-102 https://sjeccd.instructure.com/courses/40191/quizzes/272262 18/18 communal households and a trend away from nuclear families and toward frontier polygamy. cooperation among neighbors as a form of insurance in a rugged environment. Quiz Score: 30 out of 30

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