Westward Expansion Test Review

The climate of the Great Plains has

• low rainfall and frequent dust storms

• mild winters and cool summers

• frequent thunderstorms that often lead to flooding

• extreme heat throughout the year

Many former enslaved African Americans moved west because of a desire for

• a reunion with family members

• a new beginning

• employment in factories

• military ranking

Which American Indian leader led the Nez Perce from their traditional homelands towards Canada?

• Sitting Bull

• Chief Joseph

• Geronimo

• Squanto

Because there were so few trees on the Great Plains, many frontier families built?

• longhouses

• cabins

• sod houses

• igloos

Why did American Indians fight against U.S. troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• to show their opposition to westward expansion

• to gain representatives in Congress

• to force the U.S. government into selling their homelands

• to keep segregation and "Jim Crow" laws from spreading west

Which three are inventions created in the West?

• windmills

• wheat farming

• steel plows

• railroads

Which law directly impacted the lifestyle of American Indians?

• Homestead Act

• 15th Amendment

• Dawes Act

• Exodusters

During the Westward Expansion of America, most American Indians were forced to?

• joined the U,S. Cavalry

• work on the construction of new railroads

• relocate to reservations

• work on their traditional homelands for profit

Which three are adaptations to life in the West?

• sod houses

• dry farming

• wooden houses

• beef cattle raising

What was the result of the Battle of Wounded Knee?

• A land and peace treaties with American Indians were upheld

• it postponed the laying of the final tracts of the railroad

• many Lakota people were massacred, marking the end of the Indians Wars

• American Indians won the right to remain on their railroad for a few more