Smith/DiMonte Unit 3 Quiz: Westward Expansion & the Age of Jackson cloned 1/31/2022
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Directions: Please answer the following questions based on your understanding of the course readings and lessons we have done in U.S. History.
Directions: Please answer the following questions based on your understanding of the course readings and lessons we have done in U.S. History.
Questions 1-2 refer to John Gast’s American Progress painting.
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Questions 3-6 refer to key vocabulary and ideas from class discussions.
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Excerpt Audio Recording:
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Question 1
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Question 2
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Which of the following answer choices is a true statement about the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Donald Trump?
While Trump served in the Vietnam War, Jackson dodged the draft and claimed that he had “bone spurs” to avoid serving in the armed forces.
Both Jackson and Trump had significant political experience before running for president.
While Trump knew how to use the media to his advantage, the use of media to communicate did not yet exist in the Jackson era.
Both Jackson and Trump's policies appealed to their white, working-class male voters.
In an effort to assimilate Native Americans to white American society, all of the following steps took place EXCEPT
Physical changes
Forbidding Native language
Adopting English names
Increasing economic status
Indian boarding schools like the Carlisle Industrial School attempted to forcibly ___________________ Native American children to adopt white culture by giving them new names, clothes, and hairstyles.
occupy
appoint
assimilate
secede
The mission of the Carlisle Boarding School was to "kill the Indian in him, and save the man," which meant that
Native Americans must eliminate their own traditions and customs and replace them with "civilized" ones.
the Native American population must decrease through executing hundreds of native people.
Native Americans must be murdered in order to preserve white culture.
each Native American must be viewed just as human as the white person, and therefore their customs should be accepted.
Question 7
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Question 8
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In the excerpt, Jackson suggests that
he will protect the native settlers by keeping white colonists from immigrating from the area.
the two tribes he mentioned pose the greatest challenge to land claimed by Americans in southern states.
he wishes to punish the American Indians for their alliances to the British and French in previous wars.
a large amount of white settlers would gain the land that once was inhabited by a smaller group of Indians
Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous question?
Line 3-5 (“Two important...obvious advantages”)
Line 6-7 (“The consequences…Indians themselves”)
Line 7-8 (“It puts...the Indians”)
Line 8-9 (“It will...savage hunters”)
Extra Credit: There was a row between the oarsmen about who would row first in the competition.
What does the first "row" mean?
Argument
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The painting exemplifies the term Manifest Destiny, which refers to
the tragic fate of the Plains Indians.
a God-given right to expand West.
an urging for the United States to build from within their borders.
a prediction of war between North and South.
How would the movement celebrated in the painting affect the United States economy?
The new focus on agricultural development would define America’s economic activity for a century.
Access to new land and new resources led to an increase in wealth and new inventions.
The U.S. was able to become self-sufficient, which led to a decrease in desire for international trade.
Rising conflicts with Native Americans would become costly and cause the U.S. economy to plummet.
The word “consummation” in line 3 most nearly means
