Westward Expansion

The incline and decline of the cattle industry workers was directly affected by which specific inventions?

• Incline: Steel Plow Decline: Wind Mill

• Incline: Wind Mill Decline: Transcontinental Railroad

• Incline: Barbed Wire Decline: Steel Plow

• Incline: Transcontinental Railroad Decline: Barbed Wire

The cause of the last Native American armed conflict at Wounded Knee was

• the Buffalo Song a song to bring back the buffalo to their rightful lands

• the Ghost Dance a ritual believed to return the Natives to their land and banish the white man from the Earth

• the Dance of the Dead a ritual used to interact with passed ancestors

• the Pale Drum Beat a song signifying the beginning of war

Someone travelling by train from Utah to California coast in 1870 would have been more indebted to..

• The Black Exodus

• Western Cowboys

• Native Americans

• Chinese Immigrants

Which of these statements are true about to Homestead Act?

• was an agreement for slave owners to set up plantations in the west.

• allowed the beginning of building the transcontinental railroad.

• required the movement of people west to improve and cultivate the land for at least five years.

• Split up tribal land for individual natives

In order to escape racial violence in the south after the civil war, African Americans fled and settled in the states of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. What did these African-Americans become known as

• Kansisians

• Exodusters

• Exodus

• Exotics

Assimilate means to..

• allow the mixing of cultures.

• accept all cultures and religions

• leave your culture behind and conform to the mainstream culture and social traditions.

• allow for some cultures to practice their beliefs while other cultures must begin practicing new beliefs.

The transcontinental railroad allowed

• connection of the northern and southern states won during the Mexican-American War.

• telephone companies to expand to the western portion of the country.

• miners to bring gold home.

• farmers and Western merchants to sell goods at markets in the east.

One of the most significant battles during the Indian wars, caused General George Custer's defeat, and the final victory for the Native Americans.

• the Battle of Washita

• the Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee

• the Battle of the Little Bighorn

What is inflation?

• a general increase in prices and rise in the purchasing value of money

• a general decrease in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money

• a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money

• a general decrease in prices and rise in the purchasing value of money

In the presidential election of 1896, the democratic nominee who was also backed by the populist party was,

• John Adams

• William McKinley

• William John Brown

• William Jennings Bryan