Chapter 3 Test Review-Americans Move West

Who primarily used the Chisolm Trail?

• the Pony Express to transport their mail

• cowboys to drive cattle

• Paiute Indians to hunt buffalo

• the U.S. Army to build their forts

The western boundary of the American frontier had been pushed to the Pacific Ocean by the

• construction of the intercontinental railroad

• discovery of silver and gold mines in Nevada

• donation of the Great Plains to war veterans

• admission of the state of California to the Union

The Oklahoma land rush signified the

• end of the frontier

• strength of the Populist Party

• rise of deflation

• pointlessness of the Farmer's Alliance

Dry farming is best described as the

• cultivation of crops during droughts

• conversion of fields into grazing land

• growing of crops that do not need much water

• development of fields far from water sources

What led up to the Long Walk of 1864?

• Geronimo surrendered to the U.S. Army

• Raids by U.S. troops left the Navajo without food and shelter, forcing them to surrender.

• General Custer's troops attacked the Navajo

• U.S. negotiators tricked the Navajo into selling their land in New Mexico, forcing them to move

Native Americans of the Plains survived by

• selling fur

• gathering roots

• breeding horses

• hunting buffalo

The 11 million acres of land opened in the Oklahoma land rush belonged to the

• Lakota Sioux Indians

• southern Plains Indians

• Creek and Seminole Indians

• Navajo and Nez Perce Indians

What characteristic of the Texas longhorn made it significant to the Cattle Kingdom?

• little need for water and an ability to survive in harsh weather

• a diet of grain, which left grasslands available for grazing sheep

• meat that fetched a high price in overseas markets

• strength to handle northward cattle drives

During western settlement in the 1850s reservations were set up to provide

• plots of land for miners and settlers

• living space for Native Americans

• small areas for Native Americans to breed livestock

• temporary housing for cowboys on Native American land

Which of the following characterized the boomtowns of the West?

• high birth rates

• sudden growth

• tightly clustered houses

• underground gold mines