Western Expansion Review

Which of the following inventions did NOT help settle the Great Plains?

• Barbed Wire

• Steel Plow

• Telephone

• Windmill

Identify the two things that describe the climate of the Great Plains?

• Low Rainfall

• Flooding

• Frequent Dust storms

• Dense fog

Many former enslaved African Americans moved west because of a desire for --

• A new beginning

• Government Positions

• new inventions

• hard labor

During westward expansion of America, most American Indians were forced to --

• join the military

• relocate to reservations

• pay taxes

• separate their families

Which of the following is NOT an adaptation of the Great Plains?

• Sod Houses

• Dry Farming

• Wheat

• Beef Cattle Raising

• Land Surveying

Many Lakota people were massacred, marking the end of the Indian Wars, at which event?

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

• Nez Perce

• Seminole War

American Indian homelands were reduced because of broken treaties by the --

• US Government

• French Settlers

• other American Indian Tribes

• Mexican Settlers

Which crop helped settle the Great Plains because it grew well with little water?

• Corn

• Barley

• Wheat

• Squash

He was the leader of the Nez Perce who led his people from their traditional homelands toward Canada?

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

• Chief Joseph

Because there were so few trees on the Great Plains, many frontier families built --

• Sod Houses

• Buffalo chip houses

• Wood Houses

• Cement Houses