The West (1865-1890)

Which technology helped settlers pump water from deep wells on the Great Plains?

• Steamships

• Telegraph

• Windmills

• Barbed wire

Identify one reason the Homestead Act encouraged westward migration.

Which pair correctly matches a Native American leader with the related event?

• Chief Joseph — Massacre of Wounded Knee

• Sitting Bull — Victory at Little BigHorn

• Geronimo — Leading the Nez Perce to Canada

• Crazy Horse — Dawes Act

Why did settlers build sod houses on the Great Plains?

• Timber was scarce

• Sod kept out dust storms better than wood

• Sod was stronger than wood

• Laws required sod homes

Explain how the transcontinental railroad changed life in the West for both settlers and ranchers.

Which farming method involved planting seeds deep to reach moisture in the dry soil?

• Slash-and-burn

• Dry farming

• Sharecropping

• Irrigation farming

DoK1: Which metal tool helped farmers break up the hard soil of the Plains?

• Iron rake

• Steel plow

• Copper hoe

• Pickaxe

DoK2: Compare barbed wire and the open range. How did barbed wire change ranching on the Plains?

DoK3: A community discovers gold on a reservation in 1885. Predict the likely impact on the Native people living there based on historical patterns described in the passage.

Which group moved west seeking a new beginning after emancipation?

• Progressives

• Exodusters

• Populists

• Forty-Niners