Westward Expansion

How did settlers fix the problem of roaming cattle?

• Barbed Wire

• Windmills

• Lots of guns

• Sod houses

What were the conflicts between the U.S. and Native Americans known as?

• The Western Indian Wars

• The French and Indian War

• The Civil War

• Westward Expansion

When Native Americans were moved off their land they were placed in....

• Reservations

• Jail

• Slavery

• Another country

What started the "gold fever" in the West?

• The California Gold Rush

• Finding gold in the Black Hills

• The discovery of gold in the Appalachian Mountains

• The discovery of gold in Mexico

Why were buffaloes so important to the Native Americans?

• They used them and depended on them for every part of life

• They believed the buffaloes were gods

• They used them for protection

• They used them as transportation

How did farmers on the Great Plains improve their tools?

• They started making them with steel instead of wood

• They made them bigger

• They made them waterproof since it rained so much

• They realized they didn't need tools and copied Native Americans

The Transcontinental Railroad traveled in which direction?

• East to West

• North to South

• Canada to Mexico

• Europe to America

Which of the following did NOT happen to Native Americans?

• They won the Western Indian Wars

• Their land was taken from them and they were put on reservations

• Their buffalo were hunted to extinction

• They were seen as savages by white settlers

Where were 300+ Native Americans killed - ending the Native American resistance in the west?

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Black Hills Stand

Where did the U.S. 7th Calvary suffer its greatest loss during the Western Indian Wars?

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Geronimo Bay

• The Rocky Mountains