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WorksheetsThe West
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What sent electric signals over long distances quickly?
telegraph
telephone
light bulb
phonograph
Which of the following group did not benefit from the telegraph
generals
bankers
farmers
reporters
What did the Pacific Railway Act do?
Charged an extra tax on RR tickets
Financed the National Road
Shipped cattle from Texas for high prices
Helped the RR companies finance the first Transcontinental RR.
Which company laid track west from Nebraska to Utah?
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Which of the following was NOT a requirement of the Homestead Act?
farm the land for 5 years
pay a fee
married 5 years or longer
citizen or plan to become one
Which RR company started laying track in California and moved East to Utah?
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Which group did the Central Pacific hire to build the railroads?
Freed Slaves
Chinese
Irish
Farmers
Where did the Central and Union Pacific tracks meet to complete the Transcontinental RR?
Promontory Point, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Omaha, Nebraska
Sacramento, California
The ________________ caused the most hardships for settlers on the Great Plains?
Harsh Climate
Railroad
Government
Animals
Texas Longhorns were brought to America by
Indians
Irish
Spanish
French
Which one of these was NOT a reason for the end of the cattle drives?
barbed wire
railroads eventually extended deeper into Texas
over grazing on drives reduced needed food
they were too long
What did the government officials hope would happen to the Plains Indians on the reservations?
make friends
claim the land as their own
become farmers
practice their religion
Why were the Plains Tribes considered nomadic?
they stayed in one place
it was their religion
they couldn't understand their language.
they followed the buffalo
Why did the Great Plains buffalo almost become extinct?
Many buffalo died of thirst from the drought.
Settlers destroyed their habitat, their cattle brought deadly disease and hunters killed them.
They froze in the winter of 1886
Texas Longhorns took over their habitat and ate all the grass.
What act took previously given reservation land away from Indian Nations and split it into smaller pieces?
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Reconstruction Act
The Battle __________________ was an example of how American Indians fought efforts to move them to reservations.
Shiloh
Little Bighorn
Gettysburg
Antietam
Which is NOT a specific example of a challenge settlers had to deal with?
tornadoes
grass fires
locusts
earthquakes
Why did settlers move west in the 1840's?
Land
looking for the fountain of youth
Gold
Fishing
In Texas where there was a large supply of cattle, the demand was _______
high
low
In the East where there was a low supply of cattle, the demand was _______
high
low
