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Westward Expansion (Centerville)

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The law that gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived on the land for 5 years.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Pioneers

c)

Gold Rush

d)

Reservation

e)

Homestead Act

2.

Early settlers (included farmers, miners, ranchers, and immigrants)

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Pioneers

c)

Gold Rush

d)

Reservation

e)

Homestead Act

3.

What was the belief that the United States should expand West to the Pacific Ocean?

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Pioneers

c)

Gold Rush

d)

Reservations

e)

Homestead Act

4.

An area of land to which Native Americans were forced to relocate.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Pioneers

c)

Gold Rush

d)

Reservation

e)

Homestead Act

5.

Time period when many people moved to California to strike it rich.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Pioneers

c)

Gold Rush

d)

Reservation

e)

Homestead Act

6.

What physical features impacted settlement of the West?

a)

rivers and mountains

b)

climate and government

c)

Redcoats and Yankees

d)

goats and desert

7.

Native Americans of the Great Plains depended on

a)

deer

b)

buffalo

c)

elk

d)

cows

8.

Why did the United States take Native American land?

a)

to get the valuable resources they found there

b)

to get the Native Americans to move to Canada

c)

because the government did not like the Cherokees

d)

because the cattle ranchers insisted on it

9.

Against who had Chief Joseph and his people been fighting?

a)

American settlers

b)

the U.S. Army

c)

the Cheyenne

d)

General George Custer

10.

Which was a lasting effect of the activities shown in the image?

a)

Settlers in the West started ranched instead of farms.

b)

Native Americans of the Great Plains lost a natural resource that was important to their culture.

c)

Native Americans of the Great Plains lost their influence on the East.

d)

Native Americans were able to continue their traditional way of life.

11.

Which of the following best explains the relationship between Native Americans and settlers?

a)

They sometimes fought over land and resources.

b)

They lived close together and were able to share land and tools.

c)

They agreed on the way the land should be divided.

d)

They lived together peacefully with no disagreements.

12.

Why did the U.S. government displace Native Americans onto reservations?

a)

Native Americans built fences.

b)

Buffalo crowded the farms.

c)

The Native Americans asked the settlers to leave.

d)

The Native American land was valuable for mining and railroads.

13.

What helped transport cattle faster from the Great Plains in the West to growing cities in the East in the 1800s?

a)

cattle drives

b)

trucks

c)

airplanes

d)

railroads

14.

The government gave railroad companies land and money to build railroads across the West. What is land or money granted by the government called?

a)

Subdivision

b)

Handout

c)

Subsidy

d)

Reservation

15.

Why did all miners not become rich?

a)

There was no gold in the West.

b)

Native Americans attacked them.

c)

Large gold discoveries were rare.

d)

Large companies took all the gold.

16.

How did the transcontinental railroad change life across America.

a)

People and goods could move quickly across the country.

b)

Ranchers could transport buffalo on the trains.

c)

It made the land better for farming.

d)

The West was developed more slowly.

17.

Why did the government give settlers land in the Great Plains with the Homestead Act?

a)

They owed them something for being slaves in the past.

b)

They hoped the settlers would turn the West into productive farmland.

c)

They wanted to anger the Native Americans.

d)

They gave it to them to use for cattle drives.

18.

What is one way that settlers adapted to the environment on the western plains?

a)

They planted tropical plants.

b)

They became ranchers instead of farmers.

c)

They did not raise children in the harsh climate.

d)

They irrigated their crops.

19.

Why did settlers on the Great Plains build houses like the one pictured?

a)

They build them to provide protection from the weather.

b)

Settlers built the same type of house they built in the East.

c)

Settlers copied the building style of the Native Americans.

d)

An excess of trees caused them to build homes out of dirt and grass instead of wood.