Chapter 18- Opening the West

The war on the great plains between the Lakota Indians and the U.S. government ended with this event

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• Cheyenne

• The Wounded Knee Massacre

• The Sand Creek Massacre

John M. Chivington was a U.S. military officer who was in command when they attacked the

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• Cheyenne

• The Wounded Knee Massacre

• The Sand Creek Massacre

this was the massacre of 200 Cheyenne men, women and children.

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• Cheyenne

• The Wounded Knee Massacre

• The Sand Creek Massacre

The Sioux (lakota) defeated George Armstrong Custer in

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• Cheyenne

• The Wounded Knee Massacre

• The Sand Creek Massacre

Who helped U.S. cowboys learn their work?

• Irish Immigrants

• Chinese Immigrants

• Indigenous People of the Great Plains

• Spanish Cowboys

Which transportation system united the eastern and western coasts of the United States?

• Panama Canal

• Transcontinental Railroad

• National Railroad

• Erie Canal

What law guaranteed free land to settlers who cultivated the land for five years?

• Northwest Ordinance

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Act

Where did a massacre in which the Indians surrendered occur?

• Fort Laramie

• Standing Rock

• Little Big horn

• Wounded Knee

Why was buffalo important to the indigenous people of the great plains?

• They were domesticated to assist with the cultivation

• They prevented the settlers from coming to their lands

• They were the only animal that lived the great plains

• It gave them food, clothing, and shelter

Which term best defines the settlers who farmed on the great plains?

• Reformists

• Sodbusters

• the forty-niners

• Exodusters