WorksheetsSocial Studies: 2. Westward Expansion (L)
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A person who starts a business hoping to make a profit
a)
entrepreneur
b)
forty-niner
c)
prospector
d)
sodbuster
2.
A trainroute across the United States completed in 1869
a)
intercontinental railroad
b)
NorthAmerican railroad
c)
transcontinental railroad
d)
US railroad
3.
A region in which onestandard of time is used
a)
day division
b)
sunlight section
c)
time share
d)
time zone
4.
A service that used a relay of riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California.
a)
Federal Express
b)
Pony Express
c)
United Parcel Service
d)
Western Union
5.
A cattle trail from San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas, that was in use from 1867 to 1886
a)
Appalachian Trail
b)
Chisholm Trail
c)
Oregon Trail
d)
Santa Fe Trail
6.
The man who created the first pair of jeans
a)
Buffalo Bill
b)
Calvin Klein
c)
Levi Straus
d)
Joseph Wrangler
7.
The place where the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad met when completed
a)
Omaha
b)
Promontory Summit
c)
Salt Lake City
d)
Sacramento
8.
The Chinese were often paid lower wages for their work on the railroad. What can you infer?
a)
The Chinese asked to be paid less.
b)
The quality of the work done by the Chinese was inferior.
c)
The Chinese did not work as fast as the European immigrants.
d)
Chinese were discriminated against because of their culture.
9.
A law that offered loans and land to companies that would build the transcontinental railroad
a)
American Amtrak Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Pacific Railroad Act
d)
Transportation Act of 1860
10.
A device that sends messages through wire using electricity
a)
telecaster
b)
telegraph
c)
teleporter
d)
teleprompter
11.
A person who is an early settler of a region
a)
exoduster
b)
newbie
c)
pioneer
d)
sodbuster
12.
A law that gave farmland to any adult male or widow who agreed to work it for five years.
a)
Farm Act of 1865
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Pioneer Act
d)
Resettlement Act
13.
Person who invented the first steel plow
a)
J.D. Adams
b)
Allis Chalmers
c)
John Deere
d)
Paul Hargette
14.
The migration of around twenty thousand African Americans from the South to Kansas
a)
African American Exodus
b)
Great Plains Migration
c)
Kansas Fever Exodus
d)
Plantation Exodus
15.
A long journey in which cowboys took cattle from a ranch to the railroad
a)
bovine trek
b)
cattle drive
c)
cow walk
d)
steak stroll
16.
A town of empty buildings
a)
boomtown
b)
ghost town
c)
metropolis
d)
municipality
17.
The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as
a)
The Great Expansion
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
Oregon Fever
d)
The Monroe Doctrine
18.
The purpose of the Homestead Act was to develop the West
a)
True
b)
False
19.
Which statement best explains what the Dawes Act did?
a)
a. it took tribal lands from Native Americans, cut them into family-sized parcels, and sold leftover land to whites
b)
a. it put bounties on buffalo, with the goal of starving the Native Americans
c)
a. it gave free land to white settlers
d)
it allowed the railroads to build on private land
20.
What is the vast grassland found between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains?
a)
American pampas
b)
Central Steppes
c)
Great Plains
d)
Western Savannah
21.
The belief held in the 1800s that it was the divine mission of Americans to see that the United States stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
a)
American Annexation
b)
Coast to Coast Commis
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Transnational Expansionism
22.
In what year was gold discovered in California?
a)
1848
b)
1862
c)
1865
d)
1869
23.
A town that quickly grew as a result of goldbeing discovered
a)
boomtown
b)
ghost town
c)
metropolis
d)
municipality
24.
The out of control scattering of a herd of frightened cattle
a)
bovine blitz
b)
hysterical heard
c)
mad cow confusion
d)
stampede
25.
Conflicts between Native Americans and U.S. soldiers
a)
cavalry conflicts
b)
Indian assaults
c)
Plains Wars
d)
western wars
26.
Leader of the Lakota Indians in the Battle of Little Bighorn
a)
Chief Joseph
b)
Geronimo
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Wild Boar
27.
Leader of the U.S. Cavalry in the Battle of Little Bighorn
a)
John Babcock
b)
George Armstrong Custer
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
William T.Sherman
28.
How did the decisions of the government impact many Native American tribes during this time?
a)
They were left alone by the government.
b)
They were protected by the government.
c)
They all died fighting in battles against white settlers.
d)
They lost their land and were forced to move to reservations
29.
An area set aside for Native Americans tribes
a)
allotment
b)
colony
c)
reservation
d)
settlement
30.
Leader of the Nez Perce Indians whose people were captured and forced onto a reservation.
a)
Chief Joseph
b)
Geronimo
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Wild Boar
31.
Law that tried to replace reservations governed by tribes with land given to individual Indians
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Farm Act of 1865
c)
Homestead Act
d)
Resettlement Act
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