Westward Expansion Test

What is a nickname for a settler who moved to the Great Plains? 

• immigrant
• nativism
• sodbuster
• miner

What is a period of little rain?

• flood
• drought
• sodbuster
• reservations

What is a place where Native Americans were forced to live?

• reservations
• homestead
• transcontinental
• ranch

What is a person who moves from one country to another?

• nomad
• immigrant
• homesteader
• sodbuster

What is a type of railroad that spans across a large area of land?

• reservations
• transcontinental
• nativism 
• assimilation

What is behaving in a way that puts native citizens before immigrants?

• prejudice
• nativism
• immigrant
• homestead

What is the home and land that belongs to a person? 

• homestead
• reservations
• ranch
• immigrant

Which of the following was NOT a hardship faced by the Great Plains settlers?

• Grasshoppers ate setters' clothing, crops, and wooden farm tools. 
• Harsh winters and prairie fires destroyed setters' crops.
• Settlers had to pay a lot of money for their land. 
• Settlers felt very lonely because their homes were so apart.

George Jordan was known for____________. 

• laying the most number of railroad tracks in a day.
• not haveing any casualties in his regiment when fighting against Native Americans.
• helping to pass laws that prevented too many immigrants from moving to America.
• having the most profitable harvests on the Great Plains for year after year.

Who helped the majority of the new railroad tracks in our country?

• immigrants
• Native Americans
• slaves
• native citizens