WorksheetsChapter 15: The South and West Transformed
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the term given to a system of farming in the West, where there were no fences and the cattle could roam freely?
a)
Exoduster System
b)
Homestead Act of 1862
c)
Open Range System
d)
Farmer's Alliance
2.
This was an 1864 incident in which Colorado militia killed a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians.
a)
Wounded Knee
b)
Little Big Horn
c)
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
d)
Sand Creek Massacre
3.
What is the term given to a crop that is grown strictly for profit?
a)
Cotton Crop
b)
Cash Crop
c)
Fall Crop
d)
Gold Crop
4.
This 1875 law banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation.
a)
Civil Rights Act of 1975
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1875
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1861
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
5.
This law gave U.S. Citizens 160 acres of land if they were willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years.
a)
Farmers Alliance
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Louisiana Purchase Act
d)
Railroad Act
6.
What was the name given to an African American person who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War?
a)
Exoduster
b)
Buffalo Soldier
c)
Cajuns
d)
Mosian
7.
This was the 1890 confrontation between the U.S. Calvary and Sioux, that marked the end of Indian resistance.
a)
Wounded Knee
b)
Sand Creek Massacre
c)
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
d)
Little Big Horn
8.
Chief of Oregon's Nez Perce Indians, who led his people in the 1870's on a desperate attempt to reach Canada, rather than submit to forcible settlement on a reservation.
a)
Sitting Bull
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
Red Cloud
d)
Joseph
9.
The term used to describe when someone becomes absorbed into the main culture of society.
a)
assimilate
b)
reject
c)
refuse
d)
escalate
10.
Public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the Federal government.
a)
Homesteads
b)
Reservations
c)
Internment camps
d)
Relocation camps
11.
This was a network of farmer's organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800's.
a)
True Alliance
b)
The National Alliance
c)
The Socialist's Party
d)
The Farmer's Alliance
12.
He was chief and medicine man when the Sioux took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against the U.S. Army troops.
a)
Red Cloud
b)
Chief Joseph
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Crazy Horse
13.
1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated the U.S Army, by killing all 2000 troops there.
a)
Ft. Laramie Massacre
b)
Little Big Horn
c)
Sand Creek
d)
Wounded Knee
14.
These were self appointed law enforcers.
a)
Exodusters
b)
Gunfighters
c)
Vigilantes
d)
Bounty Hunters
15.
This was the rail link between the eastern and western United States.
a)
Continental Divide
b)
Transatlantic Railroad
c)
Transcontinental Railroad
d)
Pony Express
16.
This was land that was designated by the federal government for building schools. roads, or railroads.
a)
Land Grant
b)
Infrastructure Grant
c)
Charter
d)
Homestead Act
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