Westward Expansion

What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?

• The Homestead Act

• The Interstate Commerce Act

• The Dawes Act

• The American Indian Citizenship Act

This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

• The American Indian Citizenship Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Meat Inspection Act

What invention limited the "open range" and led to the decline of the cowboys' importance?

• The Steam Locomotive

• Barbed Wire

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Bessemer Process

This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Steamboat

• The Stagecoach

• The Aeroplane

General Phillip Sheridan believed that a way to end the Native American way of life was by exterminating the buffalo.

• True

• False

What precious metal was found in California in 1848, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?

• Platinum

• Coal

• Silver

• Gold

General Custer was defeated in the Battle of Little Bighorn by Crazy Horse and...

• Chief Joseph

• Hiawatha

• Sitting Bull

• Geronimo

How did the arrival of settlers change the Great Plains?

• Shift from hunting to farming

• Increase of the white settlers in the West

• Expansion of railroads and the rise of new towns

• All of the Above

Assimilation is the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of another group or nation.

• True

• False

How did the development of the railroad impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east