Test Review American Expansion/Great Plains

The Buffalo was used for all of the following except

• currency

• food

• weapons

• clothes

Who is this?

• President Grant

• General Green

• Colonial Bill Hickock

• Colonial Custer

What is the name of the Act that transferred Land from tribes to individuals?

• Dawes Act

• Carlisle Act

• Western Transfer Act

• Reservation Relocation and Dispersment Act

Custer Died at What Battle?

• Battle of Custer's Last Stand

• Gettysburg

• Crazy Bull Creek

• Little Big Horn

What was the main purpose of the reservation system?

• To make the new transcontinental railroad safer to operate

• To clear federal lands for settlement by railroads, ranchers, and farmers

• To provide employment for Union troops and veterans after the Civil War

• To make it easier for Indians to assimilate into mainstream American culture

How did completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 encourage settlement of the American West?

• The railroad led to new discoveries of precious minerals

• The railroad required immense quantities of iron and coal to build

• The railroad frightened Indian tribes, who retreated to reservations

• The railroad made it easier for ranchers and farmers to ship goods back east

Which of the following would geographers consider a “pull” factor that contributed to the settling of the Far West?

• The amount of farmland available for sale in the Northeast and Midwest was limited.

• After the Depression of 1873, many craftsmen in Northeastern cities could not find work.

• The children of large farming families in Germany and Scandinavia often did not have enough land of their own.

• Only a decade after the California Gold Rush, new discoveries of gold and silver were made in Nevada, Colorado, and South Dakota.

What was a negative aspect of the “Americanization” policy of the late 1880s for American Indians?

• Indians attended reservation schools and learned a trade.

• Indians could own and farm 160 acres of their own land.

• Indians learned English and could gain the right to vote.

• Indians saw the survival  of their traditional cultures threatened.

How did the Dawes Act (1887) mark a departure from earlier federals Indian policy?

• It led to conflicts between new settlers and Indian tribes on the Great Plains

• It moved Indian tribes still on the Great Plains to reservations farther west

• It permitted Indians to withdraw private plots from the tribal reservation.

• It encouraged the shooting of buffalo herds from new railroad lines.

Which would be the best title for the chart?

• Reasons for the success of the Nebraska Land Rush 

• Factors Contributing to the settlement of the West 

• Conditions Leading to the spread of Cholera 

• Sparks for the second Industrial Revolution