Westward Expansion Review

Which group worked in California (searching for gold) and also helped build the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Italian

• Japanese

• Irish

• Chinese

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

Colonel George Armstrong Custer is best known for his..

• support of the rights of Native Americans.
• disastrous loss in Battle of the Little Bighorn.
• defeat of the Sioux and Cheyenne in the Indian Wars.
• unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

One of the primary purposes of the Dawes Act was to..

• turn Native Americans into farmers.
• rebuild the Native American nations.
• restore the tribal ownership of land.
• encourage the Native American population to increase.

Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.

• farm cooperative
• sooner
• Chisholm Trail
• reservation

What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?

• Hayes Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Bland-Allison Act
• Dawes Act

Which was the last major battle between the U.S. Army and American Indians?

• Wounded Knee
• The Little Bighorn
• Bull Run
• Falling Timbers

The rapidly growing communites that appeared a the site of mineral strikes were callled _________

• Virginia City

• boomtowns

• the federal government

• longhorn

• prospectors

What was placed to provide easy transportation for the mining industry and increased population in the plains and west

• Southern Railroad

• Transcounty Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Continental Railroad

Lakota Sioux chief killed at Wounded Knee.

• Sitting Bull

• Little Crow

• Crazy Horse

• Chief Joseph