American West Practice 1

What common trait was shared by different Indian cultures?

• They are preferred to live on reservations.
• They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.
• They all viewed nature as sacred.
• They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.

Which of the following factors contributed to the demise of the open-range system?

• The use of sod for houses
• The invention of barbed wire
• The development of railroads
• The disappearance of big mining companies

What was the last armed conflict to take place between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army?

• The Battle of Tippecanoe
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Wounded Knee
• The Battle of Little Big Horn

Which of the following acts of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?

• the Homestead Act
• the Morrill Land Grant Act
• the Indian Removal Act
• the Dawes Act

These immigrants were tasked with the most dangerous jobs during railroad construction.

• Irish
• Italian
• Chinese
• Klingon

After the railroad was construction the US was divided into ___ time zones.

• Two
• Three
• Four
• Five

What began to happen to Native Americans living in the west after the Civil War?

• The United States government began to move them off of their lands using the military.

• The United States government left them alone to live in peace.

• They moved back to the east to take back their ancestral lands.

What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876?

• United States military forces defeated warriors from the Sioux tribe.

• The Sioux tribe crushed the United States military after a treaty was broken.

• The United States military fought against Mexico.

"Exoduster" was a name given to:

• Klansmen who wanted to scare black voters

• laws that regulated the labor of freemen

• Republican candidates who ran for office in the South during reconstruction

• Former slaves who left the South for better treatment and opportunity in the West

A town that has a sudden burst of population growth due to the gold rush.

• homestead

• frontier

• boomtown

• Great Plains