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Settling The West

Authored by Paul Walker

Social Studies

11th Grade

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Settling The West
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Farming

Barrios

Allotting

Homesteading

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Homestead

Bonanza Farm

Allotment

Barrio

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Great Plains farmers were given this name.

Carpetbaggers

Nomads

Sodbuster

Homesteaders

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Assimimate

Assimilate

Convert

Incorporate

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Transgender Railroad

Transcounty Railroad

Transcontinental Railroad

Continental Railroad

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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