Americans move West quiz

The hard work of breaking up the sod earned Plains farmers the nickname _____________

In 1860 a system of messengers on horseback called the _________ began to carry messages west. 

The Great Plains from Texas to Canada where many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800s.

• Cattle Kingdom
• cattle drives
• Great Frontier

 By granting loans and land grants to railroad companies, the passage of the Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 ensured the needed money and materials would be available for the successful completion of the ____________________.

• Pony Express
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Interstate System

What was the railroad that would cross the continent and connect the east and west called?

• Union-Pacific Railroad

• Western Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Union Railroad

communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.

• boomtowns

• open range

• frontier

This was the massacre of the last remaining Sioux tribe in 1890.

• The Slaughter of the Sioux

• The Massacre of the Last Survivors

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Massacre of the Sioux

The Chisholm Trail was used primarily by

• cowboys to drive cattle.

• the Pony Express to transport mail

• Paiute Indians to hunt buffalo.

• the U.S. Army to build forts.

Communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.

• boomtowns
• farm-city
• county seat

This law gave government owned land in the United States territory to small farmers

• Reconstruction Act

• Homeland Act

• Homestead Act

• Land Act