The American West Quiz

Some newcomers to the West learned the skills to be cowboys from the

• Mexicanos.

• Mormons.

• Nez Perces.

• pioneers.

Extending across a continent

• claim.

• transcontinental.

• Manifest Destiny.

• ranchero.

Why did the owners of many rancheros in the United States speak Spanish?

• Rich families moved to America from Spain.

• The United States acquired the land from Mexico.

• Settlers from the East Coast learned how to speak Spanish.

• Immigrants came from Latin America to seek a better life.

One of the first people to settle in a territory

• Mexicano.

• Mormon.

• pioneer.

• forty-niner.

The forty-niners traveled west for

• gold.

• free land.

• railroad jobs.

• religious freedom.

A wooden frame that fastens around an animal’s neck and is then attached to a wagon or other vehicle

• collar.

• fence.

• pan.

• yoke.

What was a miner’s claim?

• the food the miner ate.

• the tools the miner used.

• the land the miner worked.

• the money the miner saved.

A representative sent by a religious organization to try to persuade other people to adopt that religion

• immigrant.

• Ranchero.

• Mormon.

• missionary.

Many Chinese immigrants found work helping to build

• Salt Lake City.

• the Oregon Trail.

• San Francisco Harbor.

• the transcontinental railroad.

A gold seeker in the California gold rush of 1849

• forty-niner.

• missionary.

• Mexicano.

• Mormon.