Between 1860 and 1900, farmers
a) used few new machines.
b) rose in number as immigrants and city dwellers moved to the plains.
c) contributed to
... [Show More] national wealth with an increase from one-quarter to one-third.
d) represented a smaller percentage of the labor force.
ANS:
Skill=Analyze, Objective=15.1: Explain how and why American farming changed in the decades after the Civil War, Topic=Modernizing Agriculture, Difficulty=Difficult
M/C Question 2
An important factor in transforming the nature of American agriculture after the Civil War was
a) the scarcity of land in the Great Plains.
b) a decrease in the size of the average American farm.
c) increasing utilization of machinery.
d) a decline in international markets for American farm products.
ANS:
Skill=Understand, Objective=15.1: Explain how and why American farming changed in the decades after the Civil War, Topic=Modernizing Agriculture, Difficulty=Moderate
M/C Question 3
In general, American agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth century became
a) increasingly diversified.
b) less reliant on government intervention.
c) less dependent on market forces.
d) more dependent on market forces.
ANS:
Skill=Understand, Objective=15.1: Explain how and why American farming changed in the decades after the Civil War, Topic=Modernizing Agriculture, Difficulty=Moderate
M/C Question 4
By the mid-1880s, cattle raising in the American West
a) remained highly successful using open-range techniques.
b) had precluded settlement of the area by farmers.
c) faced numerous problems from both man and nature.
d) proved highly profitable for the legendary cowboys.
ANS:
Skill=Understand, Objective=15.2: Recount the ways technology affected agriculture and mining in the West, Topic=The West, Difficulty=Moderate
M/C Question 5
Between 1865 and 1900, immigrants to the United States who settled on the Great Plains
a) came chiefly from the Soviet Union.
b) came largely from Germany, the British Isles, and Canada.
c) came primarily to make their fortunes and return to their native countries.
d) usually migrated as single males.
ANS:
Skill=Factual, Objective=15.2: Recount the ways technology affected agriculture and mining in the West, Topic=The West, Difficulty=Moderate
M/C Question 6
The development of agriculture in California during the late nineteenth century was characterized by
a) small family farms.
b) a concentration on the production of cotton.
c) large profits for the original Mexican landholders.
d) large-scale farming.
ANS:
Objective=15.2: Recount the ways technology affected agriculture and mining in the West, Topic=The West, Difficulty=Moderate, Skill=Understand
M/C Question 7
In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Indians on the Great Plains
a) accepted their removal to reservations without resistance.
b) eagerly abandoned their nomadic ways for the sedentary ways of the whites.
c) often fiercely resisted white settlement in the area.
d) generally believed that the U.S. government had dealt fairly with them. [Show Less]