Westward Expansion Test Review

The United States government sent Native Americans to live on land set aside for them, known as . . . .

• reservations

• boom towns

• Great Plains

• prairies

The Battle of Little Bighorn is also known as

• The Battle of Wounded Knee

• Custer's Last Stand

• The Great War

• a big mistake

This event was important because US soldiers massacred over 200 Native Americans and it marked the end of Native American resistance.

• The Battle of Little Big Horn

• The Battle of Wounded Knee

• The Civil War

• The Sandy Hill Massacre

1. A town that experienced sudden growth during the Gold Rush

• Barbed wire

• Chinese Immigrants

• boom towns

• cowboys

1. The group responsible for moving cattle from the farms to the railroad stations

• cowboys

• Boom Town

• Chinese Immigrants

• barbed wire

1.  This group was mainly responsible for building the Transcontinental Railroad starting in 

Sacrament crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains

• cowboys

• Boom Town

• Chinese Immigrants

• barbed wire

1. This new technology was used in the “war” between the farmers and ranchers

• cowboys

• Boom Town

• Chinese Immigrants

• barbed wire

Because trains had to stop every 8-10 miles to refuel, these grew up alongside the tracks

• Homestead Act

• time zones

• sod houses

• Native Americans

• towns

6. This group was  nearly driven to starvation by the destruction of the buffalo herd

• Homestead Act

• time zones

• sod houses

• Native Americans

• towns

6. The greatest land giveaway in history that led to the settlement of the Great Plains.

• Homestead Act

• time zones

• sod houses

• Native Americans

• towns