
Westward Migration After the Civil War
Authored by Trevor Reece
History
11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the cause of the westward migration after the Civil War?
Immigration
Self-sufficiency and independence
Industrialization
Urbanization
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What facilitated the cattle trade in eastern markets in the Great Plains region?
Barbed wire fencing
Homestead Act
Mechanization of agriculture
Construction of railroads into Kansas
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What ended the days of open cattle drives in the American West?
Barbed wire fencing
Completion of various transcontinental railroads
Mechanization of agriculture
Homestead Act
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the homesteaders become known as because they were among the first to cut through the soil with their plows?
Pioneers
Cowboys
Sodbusters
Ranchers
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When was the frontier officially declared settled by the U.S. Census Bureau?
1877
1865
1890
1898
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who argued that the closing of the frontier was a cause for concern?
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Fredrick Jackson Turner
Andrew Jackson
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the federal government seek to solve by developing the reservation system?
The Homestead Act
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Dawes Act
The Indian problem
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