Westward Migration After the Civil War

What was the cause of the westward migration after the Civil War?

• Immigration

• Self-sufficiency and independence

• Industrialization

• Urbanization

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

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

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

When was the frontier officially declared settled by the U.S. Census Bureau?

• 1877

• 1865

• 1890

• 1898

Who argued that the closing of the frontier was a cause for concern?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Fredrick Jackson Turner

• Andrew Jackson

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

What legislative act officially abandoned the reservation system and divided reservation lands into 160 acre plots to be farmed by the Indians?

• Homestead Act

• Indian Appropriation Act

• Dawes Act

• Ghost Dance Movement

What was the movement developed by an Indian prophet named Wavoka, which spread across the continent?

• Indian Appropriation Movement

• Ghost Dance Movement

• Assimilationist Movement

• Homestead Movement

Where did the last violent battle of the Indian Wars take place in 1890?

• Wounded Knee, South Dakota

• Oklahoma Territory

• Kansas

• Nebraska