The History of Our United States Quiz 8

What is number 2?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Basin Desert

• Rocky Mountains

What is number 1?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Basin Desert

• Rocky Mountains

What is number 3?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Great Basin Desert

• Rocky Mountains

What mountain range is east of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers? (page 539)

(a)  

Match the following

• Pony Express

• central prairie area of land in the United States

  (p. 191)

• Great Plains

• rush to claim pieces of the Unassigned Lands in the Oklahoma Territory (p. 204)

• Oklahoma Land

  Rush

• mail delivery using a relay system of horses and riders (p. 191)

• Indian

  reservations

• large sections of land set aside by the United States government for Native American tribes (p. 198)

Match the following

• range wars

•  stagecoach company that delivered miners' gold to banks and carried mail and passengers (p. 192)

•  telegraph

• invented by Samuel Morse (p. 192)

• Wells Fargo

• fights between Western farmers and ranchers over grazing and water rights (p. 202)

Every cow town had a _________. (p. 201)

• reservation

• homestead

• railroad

The __________ was an incident in which 200 people from the Lakota tribe were killed by the United States Army. (p. 198)

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Trail of Tears
• Wounded Knee Massacre

The _________ was a law that made Native Americans citizens of the United States.

(p. 198)

• Dawes Act

• Indian Reorganization

• Indian Citizenship Act

A Union Pacific locomotive traveling west and a Central Pacific locomotive traveling east met at__________, making America's first transcontinental railroad. (p. 195)

• Salt Lake City, Utah
• Omaha, Nebraska
• Promontory Summit, Utah