Westward Expansion

What is a homestead?

• It is a settler's home and land.

• It is a soldier's home and land.

• It is the Native Americans home and land.

• It is a Confederate's home and land.

Where did the U.S. government want the Plains Indians to move?

• Homestead

• Reservation

• Mexico

• Canada

Why did the Plains Indians not want to move to a reservation?

• The reservation land had too many buffalos.

• The Plains Indians were farmers and the reservation land was too far away.

• The Plains Indians were not farmers and the reservation land was small and poor.

• The reservation land was too large to settle.

What appealed to settlers to move to the Great Plains in the 1840's?

• Steel and Iron

• Oil and Water

• Diamonds and Rubies

• Land and Gold

The United States acquired the ​ (a)   when a treaty divided U.S. and British claims to the land.

• Oregon Territory

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Territory

• Florida Territory

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Who do historians consider the greatest Mountain Man? He explored more of the West, and collected more beaver pelts, than anyone else in the 1820's & 1830's. He also is credited with finding South Pass, a 12-mile gap in the Rocky Mountains that wagons could get through. (a)  

• Jedediah Smith

• Jim Beckwourth

• Hugh Glass

• Meriwether Lewis

What was the Homestead Act?

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

Why did many settlers come to the Great Plains from Eastern United States?

• The water was cleaner in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

• The railroads were less expensive in the Great Plains than in the United States.

• The animals were more plentiful in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

• The farmland was less expensive in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

Who were the Exodusters?

• Native Americans who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

• Former Confederate who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

• African Americans who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

• Overmountain Men who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the American West.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle Mexico.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the Eastern United States.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the reservations.