American History Ch 24 Westward Expansion

What was the most important subsidy given as part of the Homestead Act and Pacific Railway Act?

• Money

• Property - Real Estate

• Lottery tickets

• Tax incentives

Sitting Bull : _______________ :: Chief Joseph : Nez Perce

• Arapahoe

• Cheyenne

• Lakota

• Kiowa

Before 1850, American Indians lived where?

• Throughout the American West

• On reservations only

• Only in the southern territories

• Mostly in California

What was the most serious challenge for Homesteaders on the plains?

• Native American attacks

• Locusts

• Bison stampedes

• Drought - low rainfall

Why is the Battle of the Little Bighorn considered to be important?

• It was fought over Bighorn sheep.

• It was a last major battle between the U.S. Army and Native Americans.

• It was the last major battle of the Mexican-American War.

• It was the first battle of the Great Plains Wars.

What finally led to the end of the long drives?

• Cattle rustlers

• Hoof and mouth disease

• Fights with homesteaders

• Bad weather

In the late 1800s, why did the U.S. government change its policies with the Native American nations?

• Extermination of the buffalo

• Development of the West

• Political pressure to protect civil rights

• Popular opinion that they should keep their lands

What were Native American nations promised as part of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

• New land in the East

• That they could keep their homeland

• Land on the Great Plains

• Hunting rights

What was the most common building material used by homesteaders on the Great Plains?

• Wood

• Bricks

• Adobe

• Sod

Which of these sequences sometime occurred in the West?

• Discovery, rush, boom town, ghost town

• Gold rush, anarchy, law & order, annihilation

• Rush, mining camps, ghost town, boom town

• Discovery, rush, mining towns, zombie apocalypse