Westward Expansion

Which is NOT a feature of the Great Plains?

• flat with a gradual rise in elevation

• dust storms

• forests

• prairie grasses

Settlement of the Great Plains reached its peak in the 1840s.

• True

• False

Which not an adaptation to life in the Great Plains?

• wheat farming

• dairy cow ranching

• beef cattle ranching

• dry farming

Which invention allowed homesteaders to draw water up from deep underground?

• sod house

• windmill

• steel plow

• barbed wire

Which is NOT a reason an African American would have moved west after the Civil War?

• to escape racism

• to get free land

• to work in factories there

• to have more job opportunities

What law granted free land in the west?

• Free Land Law

• 15th Amendment

• Homestead Act

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Congress passed the Dawes Act to try to make American Indians become farmers.

• True

• False

Who was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Custer and all his men

• Sitting Bull and all his men

The Battle of Little Bighorn is important because it marks what?

• the end of the Indian Wars

• the last major victory by American Indians

• the extinction of the buffalo

• the start of homesteading on the Great Plains

Who famously said, "I will fight no more, forever"?

• Sitting Bull

• Geronimo

• Chief Joseph

• Crazy Horse