Settling The West

The process of acquiring a piece of US public land through living on it and farming it was ____________.

• Farming

• Barrios

• Allotting

• Homesteading

A(n) ____________________ was a plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use.

• Homestead

• Bonanza Farm

• Allotment

• Barrio

Great Plains farmers were given this name.

• Carpetbaggers

• Nomads

• Sodbuster

• Homesteaders

Native Americans were encouraged to __________________ and be absorbed into the American culture.

• Assimimate

• Assimilate

• Convert

• Incorporate

This event, which happened in 1889, opened one of the last large territories for settlement.

• Kansas Land Rush

• Arkansas Land Rush

• Oklahoma Land Rush

• Homestead Act

What was placed to provide easy transportation for the mining industry?

• Transgender Railroad

• Transcounty Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Continental Railroad

With the intention to separate Native American tribes from each other and encourage them to assimilate into dominant culture, the government created these.

• Rezzes

• Reservations

• Sanctuaries

• Territories

Cavalry commander at Little Bighorn

• George Custer

• Frederick Jackson Turner

• William Fetterman

• Helen Hunt Jackson

Lakota Sioux chief killed at Wounded Knee.

• Sitting Bull

• Little Crow

• Crazy Horse

• Chief Joseph

occurred when farmers blocked cattle trails

• range wars

• boomtowns

• homesteads

• long drive