Westward Expansion After Civil War

Who was the most likely to become rich on the mining frontier?

• an individual miner

• hotel owner

• storekeeper

• mining company

The harsh vigilante justice also known as frontier justice, of the mining camps developed because there were no

• churches

• schools

• mayors

• police

Who helped build the transcontinental railroad?

• settlers

• immigrants

• miners

• cowboys

Ranchers drove their cattle from Texas to Abilene, Kansas, because

• there was better grass for the animals there

• the people of Abilene didn't raise cattle for themselves

• the cattle were safer there away from theives

• from there, the cattle could be shipped by railroad to Chicago and markets in the East.

On the long drive, cowboys worried most about the danger of

• thieves

• stampededs

• floods

• diseases

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the end of the great age of the cowboy?

• many people in the East began to raise their own cattle

• two fierce winters and a hot dry summer led ranchers to pen their cattle

• ranchers moved farther north and were closer to the railroads

• farmers moved in a took up much of the land

Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms of

• presentation

• preparation

• precipitation

• precision

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the settling of the Great Plains.

• wars between sheep herders and cattle ranchers

• a temporary increase in the amount of rainfall

• free land offered through the Homestead Act of 1862

• cheap land advertised and sold by the railroads

Under the Homestead Act of 1862, free land was given away to

• US citizens only

• poor people only

• Native American tribes

• U.S citizens and immigrants

The main reason that settlers on the plains built sod houses is that

• they were cool in the summer

• they were warm in the winter

• there were few trees from which to build wooden houses

• they were more attractive than wooden and stone houses