A People And A Nation, Volume I To 1877, Brief Edition 10th Edition By Mary – Test Bank

91. By the 1850s, San Francisco
a. had lost its pre-eminence to new metropolitan centers in California.
b. was merely a small rural settlement.
c. enjoyed prosperity almost exclusively due to the cotton trade.
d. had become the West Coast gateway to the interior.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p. 323
92. Compare the view of the West as depicted in popular literature and in public and commercial art of the nineteenth
century with the reality of the West.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p. 301-306; 313; 315; 317; 321-324
93. Discuss the causes and consequences of the Black Hawk War.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p. 307
94. Examine the role of the federal government in preparing the West for American settlement.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p. 310-311; 313
95. Discuss the characteristics of the lives of fur trappers in the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth
century.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p. 308-309
96. Explain the goals and accomplishments of the missions undertaken by Zebulon Pike.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p. 310
97. Discuss the role of the American military in the West during the first half of the nineteenth century.
ANSWER: Answer not provided.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p. 310-311