Transcontinental Railroad and Plains Indians Check

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To make China more powerful.

• To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

• To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.

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What caused Native Americans to attack the railroad and its workers?

• The railroad was built in the middle of their land and was destroying it.

• The workers started fighting with them.

• The railroad kept them from migrating.

• Native Americans didn't like trains.

Which animals were greatly affected by the Transcontinental Railroad being built?

• bison

• cattle

• horses

• birds

What was the Act that gave pioneers a way to buy land?

• The Homebound Act

• The Homeward Bound Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Home Sick Act

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

Leader of the Sioux Indians during the Ghost Dance movement

• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• Red Cloud
• Chief Joseph

What was the last event of the Indian Wars?

• Dakatoa Uprising
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Little Bighorn
• Wounded Knee

Identify the Great Plains region using the map

• Green
• Yellow
• Pink
• Blue

Indians were defeated and forced to live on certain areas of land designated for them . . .

• Travois
• Reservation
• Corral
• Culture

Allowed farmers to keep cattle from nearby ranches off their fields and away from their crops.

• steel plow

• barbed wire

• windmill

• sod house