Westward Expansion Review MMS

Farmers moved out to the west for which of the following reasons?

• to find lost cattle

• the government forced them to

• the government offered free land

• Native Americans had taken over the land in the east

George A. Custer was known for which of the following?

• becoming a president

• leading Native Americans to resistance

• winning land from Mexico

• losing to Native Americans at the Battle of LIttle Bighorn

Sitting Bull was known for which of the following?

• Lakota chief that fought to stay on his land

• Dakota chief that fought in the Dakota War

• Nez Perce chief who fled to Canada

• Cherokee chief that walked the Trail of Tears

What were created when large amounts of miners moved out west insearch of gold?

• Ghost towns

• Explosion towns

• Boomtowns

• more law enforcemen to protect the miners

A sodbuster was a

• a farmer on the Great Plains

• a rancher who used grass for his cattle

• a Native American who fought over the land

• A miner who dug below the grass for gold

The law that took Native American land and cut it up into farmland.

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Act of Assimilation

The United States acquired (got) land through all the following ways EXCEPT

• Bought it

• Won it in a war

• Stole it

• Were the first to discover it

The United States acquired (got) land from all of the following countries EXCEPT

• Germany

• Britain

• France

• Spain

These were Mexican American cowboys who taught people new skills working with horses and cattle.

• vaqueros

• white settlers

• farmers

• miners

Women moved out to the west for which reason? Pick the correct two.

• because they went with the men

• there were more job opportunities

• they were afraid of Native Americans

• the government forced them