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WorksheetsCh. 24: Tensions in the West Indians Quiz
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which group was most responsible for the completion of the transcontinental railroad?
a)
Great Plains homesteaders
b)
Chinese Immigrants
c)
California miners
d)
U.S. Military
2.
Which group was most negatively affected by the transcontinental railroad?
a)
Plains Indians
b)
Cattle ranchers
c)
Irish immigrants
d)
shipping workers
3.
Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, what was promised to American Indians?
a)
Land in the Great Plains
b)
protection of homelands
c)
land to freely hunt buffalo
d)
homes on reservations in the East
4.
Which of these changed federal policy toward American Indians?
a)
destruction of the buffalo
b)
development of the West
c)
popular belief that they had been mistreated
d)
political pressure to allow them to move to reservations
5.
All of these were an effect of the Homestead Act except
a)
an increase in U.S. farms
b)
an increase in railway lines
c)
a decrease in settlers moving west
d)
decrease in American Indian land
6.
Which of these contributed to the flood of new settlers in the West?
a)
wars in Europe
b)
jobs in factories
c)
growth of railroads
d)
fear of American Indians
7.
How did the U.S. government entice railroad companies to take on the transcontinental railroad project?
a)
by paying for all supplies
b)
by offering land subsidies
c)
by providing all the laborers
d)
by transporting supplies by rail
8.
Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, what was promised to American Indians?
a)
land in the Great Plains
b)
protection of homelands
c)
land to freely hunt buffalo
d)
homes on reservations in the East
9.
Which material was used to build homes on the Great Plains?
a)
sod
b)
wood
c)
bricks
d)
adobe
10.
What is the significance of the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
a)
It was a famous U.S. Army victory
b)
It was an event that forced Congress to honor treaties.
c)
It was the last big battle between the army and American Indians.
d)
It was the longest battle fought by the army and American Indians.
11.
What caused Plains people to finally move to reservations?
a)
financial incentives
b)
opportunity to own land
c)
educational opportunites
d)
extermination of the buffalo
12.
How did mining change the West?
a)
by improving the landscape
b)
by establishing law and order
c)
by ending American Indian conflicts
d)
by opening up areas to new settlement
13.
Which of these was a challenge for farmers on the Great Plains?
a)
unreliable rainfall
b)
conflicts with ranchers
c)
miners intruding on land
d)
clearing of abundant trees
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