Chapter 17 Test

How did farmers on the Plains struggle to make a living?

• Had to deal with sod, drought, and dust storms

• Native Americans

• Economic issues

• All of the above

Many Native Americans longed for the return of their way of life.  Many turned to a religious ceremony called the ______________.

• Moon Dance
• Sun Dance
• Greasy grass Dance
• Ghost Dance

In a monopoly...

• ...a person owns a portion of a corportion.

• ...each player collects $200 when they pass go.

• ...a person loans money to a business and is paid back with interest.

• ...one person or group controls a product or business.

8. In the early 1860s Native Americans were forced to give up land around Pike’s Peak and many warriors resisted. In response Colonel John Chivington attacked the Cheyennes in what is known as

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Boston Massacre

• Massacre at Little Bighorn

• Stone Creek Massacre

Who would have been most likely to make the following statement? "Its not fair that grain prices are so low when we small farmers are producing so much corn."

• a critic of the Homestead act

• a member of the National Grange

• a boomer in Oklahoma

• Mexican farm laborers in the Southwest

By the end of the 19th century, Native American resistance to westward expansion had been crushed.

• True

• False

What contribution did Mexicans make to cattle ranching?

• Mexicans established many western “cow towns.”

• Mexican railroads moved cattle from west to east.

• Mexican vaqueros were experts in working with cattle.

• Mexicans taught cattle ranchers how to round up cattle.

What factor negatively affected open range cattle ranching?

• The price of beef dropped due to oversupply.

• The number of cowboys dropped due to low pay.

• Heavy rains and flooding wiped out many major ranches

• Attacks by Native Americans made open range ranching too risky.

How did the Homestead Act contribute to the expansion of western settlement?

• by establishing agricultural colleges to develop better ways to farm

• by granting farm plots to people willing to live on the land for five years

• by granting white settlers ownership of Mexican American land

• by encouraging more white migration by prohibiting Chinese immigrants

How did Chinese immigrants contribute to the opening of the West?

• by working mostly as cowboys on the open range

• by helping to build the transcontinental railroads

• by lobbying for passage of the Homestead Act

• by introducing improved agricultural technology