The Railroad's Impact on Native Americans

What does the word plentiful mean as it is used in paragraph 8?

• useful to people

• struggling to survivie

• behaving aggressively

• available in large numbers

Which of these is the central idea that explains why Native Americans had to move onto reservations?

• The Native Americans didn't know very much about the land.

• The Native Americans wanted to be supported by the United States.

• Native Americans were losing their resources due to the large scale hunting of bison.

• The Native Americans wanted to join the European immigrants who settled along the railroads.

Which sentence BEST states the author's claim regarding the Native Americans?

• The Native Americans relied too heavily on bison.

• Bison were hunted by Native Americans because they caused problems for the railroad.

• Problems caused by the Transcontinental Railroad were solved when the Native Americans moved onto reservations.

• The Native Americans were good at living off of the land, but the Transcontinental Railroad made it difficult for them to do this.

Which TWO details from the passage BEST support the claim that bison were important to the Native Americans.

• But the bison were a problem for the railway companies.

• The railroad companies decided to create special trips for passengers to "hunt by rail".

• By 1881, 31 million bison had been killed.

• With the decline of the bison, Native warriors had a harder time getting enough food

• Every piece of the bison was used for food, shelter, clothing, or tools.

How does the author organize the information in The Railroad's Impact on Native Americans?

• by asking questions and giving answers

• by describing a problem and a solution

• by telling about events in time order

• by describing the American bison

Which sentence from the passage best supports the answer to that this passage is written in time order?

• Reservations were usually placed on land that wasn't useful.

• Was the Transcontinental Railroad a sign of progress?

• A large adult male bison can weigh 1,000 kilograms

• By 1884, fewer than 500 bison remained.