Western Expansion

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What was the most important invention/improvement responsible for the growth of American industry? Options: factories, railroads, corporations, telephone

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railroads

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What common trait was shared by different Plains Indian cultures? Options: They are preferred to live on reservations., They all depended on the buffalo as a food source., They all viewed nature as sacred., They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.

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They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.

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Who were the "Exodusters"?

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African Americans who fled the South after Reconstruction.

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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 cattle boom on the Great Plains ended in part because

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severe weather conditions and overproduction wiped out many ranchers.

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Which of the following was NOT a source of southern poverty following the Civil War? Options: late start in industrializing., lack of interest in new technologies., isolated southern labor market.

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over-educated population.

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The celebration which promised that if the Native Americans returned to their old beliefs and participated in a special ritual that they would be allowed to return to their land was

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the Ghost Dance

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Who led 600 American soldiers in an attack against 12,000 Sioux and Cheyenne in the Battle of Little Big Horn?

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George Armstrong Custer

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An agricultural system in the South following the Civil War in which a landowner and/or creditor provided a person (without money) access to land, equipment, and supplies in exchange for part of the crops produced was

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sharecropping

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_______ stated “Possession is a disease with them.  These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not.” 

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Chief Sitting Bull