What caused crop prices to drop in the 1880's?

overproduction and foreign competition

What was a hardship faced by farmers on the Great Plains?

All were hardships faced farmers

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1
What caused crop prices to drop in the 1880's?
overproduction and foreign competition
End of government subsides
a wall was built to "Make America Great Again"
Railroads bought up farmland
2
What impact did mining have on labor and population of the West?
All the above
Increased & Diverse population
Native Americans were driven off land
Boom & bust towns developed
3
Helen Hunt Jackson's book focused how Indians have been exploited by the American government?
A Century of Dishonor
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frontier Thesis
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
4
What is NOT true of Frederick JacksonTurner's The Significance of the Frontier?
Encouraged Democratic ideals
Shaped American chracter
Provided a new start and opportunities
Was unfair to Native Americans
5
How was Post Civil War migration West different from earlier migration?
More diverse groups migrated
Much larger number migrated
All the above
Quicker & easier trip
6
Range Wars refer to conflicts over grazing land and water rights between who?
Sheep herders
All the above
Homesteaders
Cattle Ranchers
7
What made farming and living on the plains easier or settlers?
mail-order catalogs & barbwire
dry farming & deep plowing
Deep wells & new strains of wheat
All the above
8
Who was a leader of the Sioux Indian Resistance?
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
All the above
Crazy Horse
9
Starting in the 1870's, what innovation made traveling West quicker and easier?
Prairie Scooner
Automobile
Steamboat
Railroads
10
What ended the 1st Sioux War & said Indians would move to reservations & allowed forts & trails
Bozeman Treaty
Sand Creek Treaty
Fort Laramie Treaty
Battle of Little Bighorn
11
What Act in one way or another made land available to settlers?
Morrill Land-Grant Act
Homestead Act of 1862
All the above
Dawes Act or Dawes Severalty Act
12
What did NOT bring an end to the "Cattle Kingdom" boom in cattle ranching?
Blizzard & droughts of 1885-1886
Dropping beef prices
Cowpox outbreaks
Replaced by large ranches that used scientific ranching
13
Who started the Ghost Dance movement?
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
Kylo Ren
Wovoka
14
Farmers disliked _ because they owned the banks & elevators drove up the cost of shipping goods
Stock market
Government
Seed Companies
Railroads
15
What is a group that migrated to the West?
All the above
African Americans fleeing the South
Immigrants from Europe & Asia
People leaving American cities
16
What was a major industry to develop in the West?
Cattle
All the above
Railroad
Mining
17
What was a hardship faced by farmers on the Great Plains?
Very isolated & inadequate education opportunities
All were hardships faced farmers
Drop in farm prices caused many to abandon claims
Lack of activities & agrarian malaise
18
Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed?
All the above
Many Westerners felt Chinese were taking their jobs
hostilities between different groups involved in mining
Thousands of Chinese migrated to the US in search of work
19
What was an attempt to Assimilate Native Americans?
Dawes Severalty Act
Eradicated Native American culture (religion, language)
All the above
Sending Native American children to boarding schools

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APUSH Western Expansion Post Civil War

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Questions 19

Answers

1
What caused crop prices to drop in the 1880's?
overproduction and foreign competition
End of government subsides
a wall was built to "Make America Great Again"
Railroads bought up farmland
2
What impact did mining have on labor and population of the West?
All the above
Increased & Diverse population
Native Americans were driven off land
Boom & bust towns developed
3
Helen Hunt Jackson's book focused how Indians have been exploited by the American government?
A Century of Dishonor
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frontier Thesis
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
4
What is NOT true of Frederick JacksonTurner's The Significance of the Frontier?
Encouraged Democratic ideals
Shaped American chracter
Provided a new start and opportunities
Was unfair to Native Americans
5
How was Post Civil War migration West different from earlier migration?
More diverse groups migrated
Much larger number migrated
All the above
Quicker & easier trip
6
Range Wars refer to conflicts over grazing land and water rights between who?
Sheep herders
All the above
Homesteaders
Cattle Ranchers
7
What made farming and living on the plains easier or settlers?
mail-order catalogs & barbwire
dry farming & deep plowing
Deep wells & new strains of wheat
All the above
8
Who was a leader of the Sioux Indian Resistance?
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
All the above
Crazy Horse
9
Starting in the 1870's, what innovation made traveling West quicker and easier?
Prairie Scooner
Automobile
Steamboat
Railroads
10
What ended the 1st Sioux War & said Indians would move to reservations & allowed forts & trails
Bozeman Treaty
Sand Creek Treaty
Fort Laramie Treaty
Battle of Little Bighorn
11
What Act in one way or another made land available to settlers?
Morrill Land-Grant Act
Homestead Act of 1862
All the above
Dawes Act or Dawes Severalty Act
12
What did NOT bring an end to the "Cattle Kingdom" boom in cattle ranching?
Blizzard & droughts of 1885-1886
Dropping beef prices
Cowpox outbreaks
Replaced by large ranches that used scientific ranching
13
Who started the Ghost Dance movement?
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
Kylo Ren
Wovoka
14
Farmers disliked _ because they owned the banks & elevators drove up the cost of shipping goods
Stock market
Government
Seed Companies
Railroads
15
What is a group that migrated to the West?
All the above
African Americans fleeing the South
Immigrants from Europe & Asia
People leaving American cities
16
What was a major industry to develop in the West?
Cattle
All the above
Railroad
Mining
17
What was a hardship faced by farmers on the Great Plains?
Very isolated & inadequate education opportunities
All were hardships faced farmers
Drop in farm prices caused many to abandon claims
Lack of activities & agrarian malaise
18
Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed?
All the above
Many Westerners felt Chinese were taking their jobs
hostilities between different groups involved in mining
Thousands of Chinese migrated to the US in search of work
19
What was an attempt to Assimilate Native Americans?
Dawes Severalty Act
Eradicated Native American culture (religion, language)
All the above
Sending Native American children to boarding schools