Tensions in the West

What was the name of the land offer from the U.S. government that made it possible for U.S. citizens 21 years or older to apply for 160 acres of land to live on and farm for nothing more than a $10 filing fee?

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• The Pacific Railway Act

• The Sodbuster Act

What was created by joining together the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads in Promontory, Utah?

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Oregon Trail

• The Mormon Trail

• The Pony Express

What was it called when railroad companies received land grants as an incentive for building tracks out to the Wetern part of the U.S.?

• Tariffs

• Reservations

• Homesteads

• Subsidies

Which of the following was NOT an effect of railroad expansion across the U.S.?

• Mining for gold ended in the West

• Native Americans were placed on reservations

• Faster and safter transportation to the West

• Resources from the West were transported to the East

Who was Chief Joseph?

• Leader of the Nez Perce that tried to flee to Canada to avoid placement on a reservation.

• Leader of the Sioux who was killed during the massacre at Wounded Knee.

• Cheyenne leader whose deal with the U.S. government was broken in 1864 when his people were attacked at Sand Creek.

• Sioux leader who is responsible for the death of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

What are reservations?

• Areas of land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Americans to live on.

• Grants of land or money given by the government to companies.

• Railroads that crossed the U.S.

• 160 acre plots of land offered to U.S. farmers in the late 1800s.

Where did cattle trails end?

• Eastern states like New York where slaughterhouses were located.

• Cowtowns in places like Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri.

• Southern states like Texas and Louisiana.

• Mining towns in the West.

What is a cowtown?

• A town at the intersection of a railroad and a cattle trail where cowboys would end their cattle drives.

• A large city in the East where slaughterhouses processed beef.

• A nickname for a mining community in the Western part of the U.S.

• A nickname for a Texas ranch.

What contributed to the end of cattle drives?

• A new wave of vegetarians opposed eating beef in the late 1800s.

• Cattle formed a union and began to protest walking long distances.

• Not enough men wanted to be cowboys.

• Rail lines extended into Texas.

What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Custer and his men were killed after attacking a group of Sioux and Cheyenne.

• A Cheyenne village was slaughtered by members of a Colorado militia.

• Custer killed a group of Sioux.

• 200 men, women, and children were killed by the 7th cavalry.