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WorksheetsWestward Expansion
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What development helped Americans expand westward?
a)
transcontinental railroad
b)
automobiles
c)
industrialization
d)
Native American expansion
2.
What do you call a town that experiences a sudden growth?
a)
exoduster
b)
boom town
c)
reservation
d)
vigilante
3.
The ________________ was a law in 1860 that offered acres of land to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for 5 years.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Meeting at Promontory Point
c)
Homestead Act
d)
boom town
4.
This was a political party that was formed by farmers who wanted to raise crop prices.
a)
Vaquero
b)
Vigilante
c)
Populist
d)
Granger
5.
Which did not happen to Plains Indians as a result of westward expansion?
a)
they were put on reservations
b)
tribes were massacred by the military
c)
they were forced to sign treaties
d)
they were given political power
6.
_______________ were African Americans who took advantage of the Homestead Act
a)
exodusters
b)
vaqueros
c)
sodbusters
d)
grangers
7.
The ___________________ Railroad started in New York and was built by Irish immigrants.
a)
Transcontinental
b)
Union
c)
Pacific
d)
Pomontory Point
8.
Which of the following DID NOT accelerate Westward Expansion
a)
Native American tribes
b)
Homestead Act
c)
ranching
d)
mining
9.
__________________ was land set aside for Native Americans.
a)
sodbuster
b)
vaquero
c)
reservation
d)
granger
10.
Battle of 1876 in which Sioux and Cheyenne tribes killed an entire force of US troops.
a)
Battle of Little Bighorn
b)
Sand Creek Massacre
c)
Meeting at Promontory Point
d)
Wounded Knee Massacre
11.
This was the name that Native Americans gave to African American soldiers in the west.
a)
vaqueros
b)
buffalo soldiers
c)
grangers
d)
sodbusters
12.
This is where the Union and Pacific railroads met.
a)
Promontory Point
b)
Sand Creek
c)
Little Bighorn
d)
Wounded Knee
13.
___________________ was created by railroad companies.
a)
steel plow
b)
standard time
c)
vigilante
d)
barbed wire
14.
______________ was an invention used to keep cattle in one area.
a)
sodbuster
b)
steel plow
c)
barbed wire
d)
free silver
15.
This law in 1887 divided Native American reservations into plots for Native American families to farm.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Battle of Little Bighorn
d)
Meeting at Promontory Point
16.
Bankers and industry wanted the government to back up money with _______________.
a)
gold
b)
silver
c)
sod
d)
steel
17.
Farmers and grangers wanted the government to back up money with _______________.
a)
gold
b)
silver
c)
sod
d)
steel
18.
Another word for cowhand is _____________. These Americans were taught how to handle cattle.
a)
vaquero
b)
vigilante
c)
sodbuster
d)
granger
19.
This was an organization formed by farmers to meet their social and economic needs.
a)
sodbusters
b)
populists
c)
grangers
d)
exodusters
20.
________________ is a person who takes the law into their own hands.
a)
vaquero
b)
vigilante
c)
sodbuster
d)
buffalo soldier
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