19th Century American Expansion Quiz

What term refers to the movement of African Americans to Kansas in the late 19th century?

• Gold Rushers

• Exodusters

• Settler Colonialists

• Bonanza Farmers

Which act provided land to settlers in the West, encouraging expansion?

• Gold Rush Act

• Homestead Act

• Borderlands Act

• Great Plains Act

What innovations helped increase agricultural productivity in the West?

• Gold Mining Tools

• Steel Plow and Mechanical Reaper

• Borderland Negotiations

• Great Plains Irrigation

What term describes large-scale farms that emerged in the West?

• Gold Rush Farms

• Bonanza Farms

• Exoduster Farms

• Southwest Farms

Which concept involves attempting to replace indigenous peoples, cultures, and settlements with non-indigenous peoples?

• Gold Rush

• Settler Colonialism

• Exoduster Movement

• Borderlands

Areas of grasslands that stretches from the Rocky Mountains in the north to Texas and the Mexican border in the South?

• Southwest

• The Great Plains

• Bonanza Farms

• Gold Rushes

Strikes of gold and silver were common in the Gilded Age and were a(n)_____________ of migration to the west.

• cause

• effect

The Southwest differed from the Great Plains because of its diverse geography, including

• deserts

• forests

• canyons

• all of these answers are correct

the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.

• Resistance

• Persistance

• Resilience

• Negociation

to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult or opposed by other people

• Resistance

• Persistance

• Resilience

• Negociation