Nebraska Ch. 10 Test

The Republicans and Democrats in Nebraska were called:

• South Platters and South Rivers

• South Yankees and Chatauquas

• North Platters and South Platters

• Populists and South Yankees

Which was NOT a reason the capital stayed in eastern Nebraska?

• The West was too cold

• The land was too dry to grow crops in western Nebraska

• Indian warriors raided settlements in the West

• The West was too unsettled

The cattle industry in Nebraska began:

• because there were no more buffalo

• because cowboys needed jobs

• when the Civil War started

• after ranchers discovered prairie grasses were healthy for cattle

Ranchers used brands to:

• mark their cattle

• plow their fields

• fence in their cattle

• build their houses

Which two inventions changed the way Nebraskans lived?

• granges and brands

• open ranges and railroads

• windmills and barbed wire

• barbed wire and Chautauquas

Which is NOT a change the Populists wanted to see happen?

• They wanted lower taxes

• They wanted all children to go to school

• They wanted longer work days

• they wanted old soldiers to get more money from the government

______ showed that Nebraska was becoming more modern

• Reclamation Act

• the Grange

• orphan trains

• Trans-Mississippi Exposition

_____ brought children to Nebraska from the East so people could adopt them

• orphan trains

• cattle trade

• Chautauqua movementq

• Reclamation Act

_____ was a town where men bribed government leaders with ice cream

• the Grange

• Yankee Hill

• Trans-Mississippi Exposition

• Reclamation Act

_____ was an industry in which Texas ranchers shipped their cattle to markets in the East and in Europe

• Timber-Claim Act

• the Grange

• cattle trade

• Yankee Hill