WorksheetsUnit 1 Part 1
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1848-1880s thousands of people move west to strike it rich.
a)
Gold Rush
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Dawes Act
2.
Over $400 million in silver found there.
a)
Comstock Lode
b)
Gold Rush
c)
Homestead Act
3.
For a $10 registration fee, people got 160 acres once they lived there for 5 years.
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Transcontitental RR
c)
Exodusters
4.
Created agricultural colleges in each state.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Assimilation
c)
Morrill Land Grant Act
5.
African Americans who moved west.
a)
Exodusters
b)
Nez Perce
c)
Scalawags
6.
Home built by settlers in the west out of dirt because there was no timber.
a)
Sod Houses
b)
Buffalo Chips
c)
Exodusters
7.
Ended cattle drives. Invented by Joseph Glidden.
a)
Barbed Wire
b)
Windmill
c)
Steel Plow
8.
Completed in 1876, caused time zones to be made, connected to US.
a)
Transcontinental RR
b)
Gold Rush Railroad
c)
Pullman
9.
Railroad company cheats the government out of millions of dollars.
a)
Credit Mobilier Scandal
b)
Battle of Little Big Horn
c)
Morrill Land Grant Act
10.
Nickname given to black soldiers.
a)
Exodusters
b)
Buffalo Soldiers
11.
Chivington and his soldiers kill women, children, and men Native Americans even after they were flying a white flag.
a)
Sand Creek Massacre
b)
Battle of Little Bighorn
c)
Wounded Knee
12.
June 25, 1876. George Custer and soldiers are killed by the Lakota.
a)
Wounded Knee
b)
Battle of Little Bighorn
c)
Sand Creek Massacre
13.
Final resistance of Native Americans.
a)
Wounded Knee
b)
Battle of Little Bighorn
c)
Sand Creek Massacre
14.
When the army came to relocate them, they travelled more than 1300 miles before surrendering.
a)
Nez Perce
b)
Battle of Little Bighorn
15.
Granted land to Native Americans to assimilate them.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Homestead Act
16.
A Century of Dishonor, by Helen Hunt Jackson, led to ...
a)
assimilation
b)
the Native American cullture being preserved
17.
Farmers decided to make a change through politics.
a)
The Grange
b)
Populism
18.
alliance of farmers that fought against RR companies.
a)
The Grange
b)
Populism
19.
Federal law passed in 1887 to regulate railroad
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Railroad Regulation Act
20.
Having silver and gold back money.
a)
Bimetallism
b)
Gold bugs
21.
Confederate money that was taken out of circulation, which hurt farmers and southerners.
a)
Greenbacks
b)
Silverites
22.
Populist candidate for president in the election of 1896.
a)
Bryan
b)
McKinley
23.
Speech given by Bryan arguing for bimetallism.
a)
Cross of Gold
b)
A Century of Dishonor
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