Great West

Which animal was essential for Native American life on the Plains?

• Cows
• Pigs
• Buffalo
• Sheep

What did the Homestead Act do?

• It limited immigration

• It regulated businesses

• It increased the tariff

• It gave free land to those who settled in the West that agreed to farm for 5 years

Which material was used to build homes on the Great Plains?

• sod
• wood
• bricks
• adobe

What were the lands where Native Americans were forced to live called?

• Reservations
• Compounds
• Concentration Camps
• Summer Camp

What spiritual dance to bring back lost land, the buffalo, and banish the white man led to the Massacre at Wounded Knee?

• The Ghost Dance

• The Electric Slide

• The Cupid Shuffle

• The YMCA

All of the following are effects of the Transcontinental Railroad EXCEPT

• furthering the goals of Manifest Destiny

• the connection of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

• improvements in working conditions for Chinese workers

• the ability to efficiently transport people and goods across the nation

_______________ provided labor for the Central Pacific to build the transcontinental railroad from the west to the east, while ___________________ provided labor for the Union Pacific to build the railroad from east to west.

• Irish, Chinese

• Chinese, Irish

• Plains Indians, African Americans

• English, Germans

What took place at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869?

• massacre of Lakota Sioux

• massacre of Plains Indians

• completion of Transcontinental Railroad

• largest silver strike in American history

Which event had the most IMMEDIATE impact on the Plains Indians?

• the invention of the sod house

• the use of windmills for irrigation

• the success of the abolition movement

• the over-hunting of buffalo by US citizens

Which invention led to the closing of the frontier, disrupted ancestral Plains Indians hunting patterns, and caused the end of the Cowboy?

• barbed wire

• electric fencing

• wood fencing

• telephone wire