UNIT 2 REVIEW The Western Crossroads

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What battle was a major victory for the Sioux against General Custer?

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Battle of Little Bighorn

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What spiritual dance led to the Massacre at Wounded Knee? Options: The Ghost Dance, The Electric Slide, The Cupid Shuffle, The YMCA

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The Ghost Dance

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Which of the following factors contributed to the demise of the open-range system? Options: The use of sod for houses, The invention of barbed wire, The development of railroads, The disappearance of big mining companies

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The invention of barbed wire

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Which of the following is NOT an effect of the Dawes Act? Native Americans forced to Americanize, Forced them to become farmers, Native Americans became wealthy landowners, Abolished Native American Tribes

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Native Americans became wealthy landowners

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One negative effect of western expansion was: New Technology, Enrichment of Native American Cultures, Increase in American Wealth, Destruction of the buffalo population

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Destruction of the buffalo population

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What did Joseph Glidden invent?

Back

Barbed Wire

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General George Custer was the US Army commander at which battle?

Back

Little Big Horn

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Which act of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years? Options: the Homestead Act, the Morrill Land Grant Act, the Indian Removal Act, the Dawes Act

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the Homestead Act

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The Homestead Act of 1862 offered settlers

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160 acres of western public land

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What was the primary goal of the Dawes Act in 1887?

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reservation land was divided up and redistributed to the heads of households and given 160 acre plots