West Transformed

The land that the US government allowed a Native American tribe to settle on was called

• Indian Territory
• a land recession
• public land
• a reservation

The chiefs who united the Sioux to drive white settlers from Native American land in the Black Hills were

• Sitting Bull and Chief Joseph
• Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
• Sitting Bull and Geronimo
• Geronimo and Crazy Horse

The last major Native American victory over the US Army occurred at

• Wounded Knee Creek

• the First Battle of Ft Laramie

• the Battle of the Little Big Horn

• Sand Creek

African Americans who left the South after the Reconstruction and migrated west to settle in Kansas became known as Sodbusters

• True
• False

What was the name of the first train system to the link the East and the West called?

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Mission
• The Oregon Trail
• Natural Resource

How did Congress support construction of the transcontinental railroad?

• By actively recruiting immigrant labor
• By promoting an open-range system
• By providing land grants
• By passing the Homestead Act

Which of the following factors contributed to the demise of the open-range system?

• The use of sod for houses
• The invention of barbed wire
• The development of railroads
• The disappearance of big mining companies

What was the last armed conflict to take place between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army?

• The Battle of Tippecanoe
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Wounded Knee
• The Battle of Little Big Horn

Which of the following acts 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?

• the Homestead Act
• the Morrill Land Grant Act
• the Indian Removal Act
• the Dawes Act

6) Which of the following groups taught Americans cattle ranching techniques in the early 1800s?

• Native Americans
• African Americans 
• settlers 
• Mexicans