Westward Expansion Test

What invention below changed the landscape of the West? 

• horseless buggy (1)

• 
  tractor (2)

• cotton gin (3)

• 
  barbed wire (4)

The climate on the great plains has low (a)  

Many former enslaved African Americans moved west because of a desire for.

• a reunion with family members

• new beginning

• employment in factories

• military ranking

During the Westward Expansion of America, most American Indians were forced to

• joined the U.S. Cavalry

• 
  move to the west 

• relocate to reservations

• work on their traditional homelands for profit

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Adaptations of the West

,

(b) Inventions of the West

• beef cattle

• sodhouses

• technology

• wheat farming

• barbed wire

• steel plows

• windmills

• dry farming

American Indian homelands were reduced because of-

• the number of growing factories

• broken treaties with the U.S. government

• increase in the buffalo population 

• continued battles between different American Indian tribes

Because there were so few tress on the Great Plains, many frontier families built-

• longhouses

• cabins

• sod houses

  
  

• igloos

Why did American Indians fight against U.S. troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

•  to show their opposition to westward expansion

• to gain representation in Congress

• to force the U.S. government into selling their homelands

• to keep segregation and “Jim Crow” laws from spreading west

The steel plow was a successful invention for the Great Plains because it-

• had a dull blade, making it easy to move the dust from the surface

• was sharp and could dig in the dry, tough soil

• allowed farmers to grow more wheat with fewer workers

• easily removed the small, sticky seeds from cotton

American Indians were forced to relocate from their traditional homelands onto 

• federal reservations

• forty acre farms

• sharecropping plantations

• Canadian territories