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Westward Expansion

Authored by Jane Toomey

Social Studies

8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Gave 160 acres of western land to anyone who promised to farm.

Homestead Act

Haymarket Act

Freeland Act

Indian Removal Act

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which two immigrant groups built the Transcontinental Railroad?

Mexican / African

Chinese / Irish

English / Dutch

Native Americans / French

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Congress passed a law restricting which immigrant group from entering the United States?

German

Irish

Chinese

Mexican

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were the Exodusters?

Irish immigrants who came from the town of Exodust.

Chinese immigrants building railroads in Nevada deserts.

African Americans who moved from the South to Kansas after Reconstruction.

African Americans who moved to California during the Gold Rush.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the Grange?

An organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads.

An organization through which Native Americans attempted to combat the power of the US Government.

What cattlemen and farmers fought over in the "Grange Wars."

A type of silo used for storing grain.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The significance of the Battle at Little Bighorn is that . . .

Native Americans were willing to fight to keep their way of life

Plains warriors could be formidable foes.

The U.S. Cavalry didn't always win.

All of these.

None of these.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The American cowboy learned his skills from . . . ?

the Argentinian gaucho

the cowboys of the Camargue

the Hungarian csiskos

the Mexican vaqueros

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