Cooperation and Conflict

Which is the BEST example of the concept of cooperation during America's westward expansion?

• European Americans formed communities and helped each other succeed in this new land through activities like barn raisings.

• Mexicans who were living in land surrendered by treaty to the United States faced discrimination after the Mexican-American War.

• Ranchers and cowboys competed with rustlers and often came in conflict with the townspeople they met during cattle drives.

The people who lived on the prairie before the pioneers ever came west were the ….

• Buffalo

• Native Americans

• Chinese

• Miners

Why did cowboys work for ranchers?

• The ranchers wanted company on their large ranches.

• The cowboys owned the cattle and sold them to the ranchers.

• The ranchers and cowboys were partners, so the cowboys did not really work for the ranchers.

• The ranchers needed someone to herd the cattle and get them to market along the cattle drives.

Exodusters were….

• Men who dusted for a living.

• African Americans who moved west to get away from the discrimination in the South.

• Sharecroppers who moved west

• Slaves who ran away from the plantations

Chinese Immigrants came to America to

• To herd cattle

• To be cowboys

• To live on reservations

• Work on the railroad or mine for gold

I just moved to America, but I am too poor to travel to the West. Instead, I will start a family here in the city. People do not like me because I was not born in America. Who am I?

• Chinese immigrant

• European immigrant

• Mexican American

• African American