Western Expansion

Western Expansion

11th Grade

10 Qs

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Western Expansion

Western Expansion

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

factories
railroads
corporations
telephone

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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. 

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

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.

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