Ch 17 Western Expansion

This stretched from coast to coast

• Comstock Lode

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Yellowbrick Road

• Lincoln Continental Road

Who were the first to transform the west?

• Native Americans

• settlers

• immigrants

• miners and railroaders

What word would you say describes cattle drives?

• safe

• dangerous

• popular

• easy

Native Americans were forced onto

• reservations

• plantations

• plains

• farmland

A reason to send your child to the Carlisle Indian School was

• to learn English

• to learn a trade

• to understand the white man

• all of the above

A Sooner is

• a nickname for a settler who cheated the land rush

• a Native American tribe

• a type of longhorn cattle

• a type of buffalo

The US government signed and kept treaties with the Native Americans.

• True

• False

The Spanish word 'vaquero' means

• buffalo

• settler

• Indian

• cowboy

He ran a Wild West show...

• Buffalo Bob

• Billy the Kid

• Jesse James

• Buffalo Bill

Homesteaders received 160 acres and ___ years to make it on the plains.

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 10