Chapter 2: Settling the West

True or False: The open range was a large area of grassland where cattle ranchers could graze their herds for free.

• True

• False

True or False: John Chivington was forced to attack the Cheyenne at Little Big Horn.

• False

• True

Mexican Americans lost land in the West because

• None of the above

• Left for the cities

• Sold their land to the prospectors

• American Courts wouldn't recognize land grants

True or False: Before the Sand Creek massacre, the Cheyenne came to Fort Lyon to negotiate.

• True

• False

"Pikes Peak or Bust" was coined by

• Sodbusters

• Gold miners

• Ranchers

• Hikers

True or False: The "long drive" was when cowboys herded horses hundreds of miles to a railroad line.

• True

• False

In 1924 Congress granted all Native Americans

• Citizenship

• Land

• Suffrage

• None of the above

The Dakota people, led by Little Crow, launched a major uprising in Minnesota in ______________

• 1864

• 1862

• 1870

• 1900

The Boomtown in the Colorado mountains was called

• Pikes Peak

• Denver

• Virginia City

• Leadville

True or False: The Great Plains extend westward to the Rocky Mountains.

• True

• False