Western Expansion - settlers

The Homestead Act required people to farm on land for _____ years to get _______ acres for free.

• 10 years, 50 acres

• 1 year, 80 acres

• 7 years, 180 acres

• 5 years, 160 acres

Which was NOT a way that homesteaders adapted to their new lives?

• Built sod houses or dugouts

• Used buffalo chips for fuel

• Used iron for fences

• Dug wells for water

Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains?

• steel plow
• reaper
• windmill
• barbed wire

What idea(s) does this picture represent?

• American Justice

• Freedom and Liberty

• Manifest Destiny

• Empire and Power

Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains?

• steel plow
• reaper
• windmill
• barbed wire

Pressuring Native Americans to cut their hair, change their dress, and learn English are examples of:

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

What obstacles did farmers have to overcome?

• Locusts and poor weather

• Mountains and oceans

• Birds and sunshine

• Buffalo and hurricanes

Who were the Forty-Niners?

• Prospectors

• Sailors

• Soldiers

• Native Americans

How did farmers identify their animals to graze them on public land?

• By fencing them in

• Using ankle bracelets

• By putting necklaces on them

• By branding them

What attracted the homesteaders to the new land?

• Freedom of religion.

• The land was low-cost and had good soil.

• The land had many trees for shade.

• The land had a river flowing through it.