Western Expansion

Of the following, what was the most important invention/improvement responsible for the growth of American industry?

• factories
• railroads
• corporations
• telephone

What common trait was shared by different Plains Indian cultures?

• 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.

Who were the "Exodusters"?

• Mexican Americans who fled after the Mexican-American War
• African Americans who fled the South after Reconstruction
• Chinese Americans who fled the North after the Gold Rush
• Native Americans who fled the East after the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

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

The cattle boom on the Great Plains ended in part because 

• many ranchers preferred raising sheep. 
• too few people were willing to risk investment. 
• new breeds of cattle made ranching less profitable.
• severe weather conditions and overproduction wiped out many ranchers. 

Which of the following was NOT  a source of southern poverty following the Civil War? 

• over-educated population. 
• late start in industrializing. 
• lack of interest in new technologies.
• isolated southern labor market.

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 

• the Ghost Dance
• called concentration.
• assimilation.
• the Dawes Act.

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

• John Chivington
• George Armstrong Custer
• Sitting Bull
• Phillip Sherman.

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 

• nativism
• assimilation.
• sharecropping
• tenant farming

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

• Geronimo
• Black Kettle
• Chief Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph