Westward Expansion quiz #2

Black Kettle's tribe was mostly a mix of Arapaho and what other tribe?

• Choctaw
• Cheyenne
• Apache
• Navajo

Where did many of the cowboys come from?

• A. Many were former slaves. (I.e., they used to be slaves.)

• B. They were former used wagon salesmen.

• C. Most came from the great state of Antarctica.

• D. The majority were former plantation owners.

How many acres could you get from the Homestead act?

• 50
• 100
• 160

How long did you have to farm the land to keep it under the Homestead act?

• 1
• 5
• 10

The transcontinental railroad ______

• connected east and west
• connected north and south

where are the Great Plains?

• East coast
• Central US
• West coast

Who signed the Homestead Act?

• President Washington

• President Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Andrew Jackson

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

Where did the Central Pacific Railroad build?

• Omaha, Nebraska to the West, over the plains
• Sacramento, California to the East, Over the mountains
• Missouri to California
• Over the Mississippi River

On what day did the transcontinental railroad completed?

• On May 1862

• On May 1865

• On May 1869

• On May 1868