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Heimler’s History Ultimate Review Packet APUSH 2020- Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Questions
Unit 6: 1865-1898
Questions 1-3 refer to the maps below.
1. The trend depicted in the maps above resulted most directly from which of the following
factors?
a. Settlers’ and miners’ desire for better access to land and resources
b. Government subsidies for transportation and communication systems
c. The violation of government treaties with Native Americans
d. The invention of the steam locomotive and improved steel production
a. Incorrect : Westward expansion was certainly motivated in part by increasing access to
resources but the expansion of railroads did not directly result from this.
b. Correct : The private-public partnership between industrialists and the federal
government was the driving force behind railroad expansion during and following the
American Civil War.
c. Incorrect : Violations of land treaties definitely contributed to the occasion for further
expansion of railroads but did not directly result from it.
d. Incorrect : The first steam locomotive was invented in the early 19th Century.
Explanations :
2. Which of the following was not an effect of the trend depicted in the maps above?
Explanations :

Heimler’s History Ultimate Review Packet APUSH 2020- Stimulus Based Multiple Choice Questions
c. Correct : While the Asian and European immigrant contributions to industrial steel
production, mining, and laying of railways were significant, nativism actually rose as a
result of increased competition for jobs.
d. Incorrect : Food prices did indeed drop as transportation capacity increased and costs
decreased.
3. The change depicted in the maps best explains the
Explanations :