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M2 Westward Expansion Assessment

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.
a)
mountains
b)
crossing rivers
c)
the great plains
d)
all of the above
2.

How did the western expansion impact the buffalo population?

a)

the amount of buffalo did not change

b)

this almost caused the buffalo's extinction

c)

the amount of buffalo increased

d)

buffalo migrated east

3.

What was the cause of a town becoming a ghost town?

a)

the gold runs out in the local mine

b)

ghosts scared the people away

c)

both

d)

none of the above

4.

Hydraulic mining is...?

a)

extracting gold by using high pressure water

b)

circling dirt and rocks from a river in a pan so the heavier gold stays

c)

digging tunnels and blasting

d)
mining did not provide any jobs for local residents
5.

Which of the following was an effect of westward expansion on the Native Americans?

a)

they became rich

b)

they were forced to live on reservations and live in poverty

c)

they fought off the settlers and formed their own country: Indiana

d)

Native American culture became widely adopted by white settlers

6.

William McKinley was supported by the ____________ and was the __________ Presidential candidate in 1896.

a)

miners and was the Whig

b)

bimedalists and was the Populist

c)

Southerners and was the Democrat

d)

goldbugs and was the Republican

7.

Exodusters choose to move west in hopes of finally owning land and escaping discrimination. They were:

a)
European Immigrants
b)
Asian Immigrants
c)
Mexican Americans
d)
African Americans
8.
What invention helped prevent cattle from escaping?
a)
bean picker
b)

barbed wire fences

c)
steel plow
d)
windmills 
9.
How did the transcontinental railroad change the economy of the United States?
a)
It transported agricultural products to processing centers and helped major industries such as flour milling and meat processing develop in cities like Chicago. 
b)
It transported people to the cities to work in factories. 
c)
It transported Native Americans to the west. 
d)
 It transported raw materials to build factories in the west. 
10.
How did most people travel to the west?
a)
Boat
b)

transformer

c)
Car
d)
Covered Wagon
11.

What technology revolutionized farming in the west?

a)

Steel plows, mechanical reapers, and windmills

b)

Morse code

c)

horses

d)

cars

12.

What types of WEATHER hazards did pioneers face?

a)

Starvation

b)

Sickness or disease

c)

Fights with Native Americans

d)

Spring floods, winter snows, and tornadoes

13.

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 allow settlers to do?

a)
Go to war with Native Americans
b)

Own 160 acres of land that they settled on after 5 years

c)
Establish the sharecropping system
d)
Make peace with the Native Americans
14.

Why did the cattle industry become a big business in the late 1800s?

a)

Ranchers and businessmen developed a plan to supply eastern populations with food

b)

longhorn cattle could survive the long drive

c)

Young men were eager to get off the farm and work long hard hours

d)

all of the above

15.

A town that has a sudden burst of population growth due to the gold rush.

a)

homestead

b)

frontier

c)

boomtown

d)

Great Plains

16.

Herding cattle from Texas to the Kansas railroads by horseback was called the:

a)

long drive

b)

homestead

c)

buffalo soldier

d)

frontier

17.

Cowboys that came from Mexico with the Spanish during the 1500s - 1800s were called

a)

delinquents

b)

vigilantes

c)

vaqueros

d)

Sitting Bull

18.

Land set aside by the U.S. Government for Native American tribes

a)

boomtown

b)

reservation

c)

frontier

d)

Great Plains

19.

1864 - attack where U.S. troops killed more than 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Wounded Knee Massacre

c)

Battle of Little Bighorn

d)

Great Plains Disaster

20.

Lakoda chief who tried to fight back against American settlers who were hunting for gold on his tribal lands

a)

Vaquero

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Buffalo Soldier

d)

Little Know It All

21.

1876 - Sioux and Cheyenne forces wipe out a force of U.S. troops under George A. Custer at the ...

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Wounded Knee Massacre

c)

Battle of Little Bighorn

d)

Battle of Gettysburg

22.

Native Americans called African Americans who were serving in the army...

a)

Exodusters

b)

buffalo soldiers

c)

vaqueros

d)

boomtown

23.
The Grange was...
a)
an organization created to support farmers
b)
a house
c)
a place Homesteaders lived
d)
an organization for Mormons
24.

The Dawes Act...

a)

gave Native Americans more land

b)

forced the native population onto reservations

c)

borrowed land from the Native Americans

d)

broke up tribal lands by dividing them into individual plots of 160 acres, and enforcing assimilation

25.

During Westward Expansion many settlers believed this was the opportunity of a lifetime. Why?

a)

No government in the history of the world gave land away for free. Ever.

b)

People had to mine for precious metals before it ran out

c)

The freedom, danger and excitement of the west would soon be gone forever.

d)

all of the above

26.

Bimetallism inflates money by tying the dollar to

a)

gold and silver

b)

silver

c)

gold

d)

steel

27.
The Morrill Land Grant Act...
a)
gave land to poor farmers
b)
gave land to anyone willing to move west
c)
gave land to colleges and universities who wanted to improve on agricultural techniques
d)
gave land to former slaves
28.

He was the Democratic nominee for President in 1896, capturing much of the South and the West.

a)

William McKinley

b)

Bob Saget

c)

Ash Ketchum

d)

William Jennings Bryan

29.

The Populist Party was soon adopted by the __________ Party, which absorbed many of its policies, and people.

a)

Whig Party

b)

Grange

c)

Democratic

d)

Republican

30.

One reason that farmers organized alliances was because of ....

a)
the railroad companies
b)
the buffalo
c)
the invasive species
d)
Charmander burning down their farms
31.

Assimilation, in the area of our study, means...

a)

to become alien

b)

to forget your name

c)

to leave your home

d)

to be forced into another culture

32.

Which of the following was NOT, repeat, "NOT" a result of the Homestead Act?

a)

increased conflict between settlers and Native Americans

b)

increased westward migration

c)

protection of the rights of Native Americans

d)

opening up the frontier to farming and ranching

33.

Who was the Lakota leader who won the Battle of Little Big Horn, escaped to Canada and returned to star in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?

a)

Geronimo

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Custer

d)

Little Bull

34.

How were Native Americans forced to assimilate?

a)

Their children were sent to white schools.

b)

They were only taught in English.

c)

Reservation land was divided into private lands by the Dawes Act

d)

All of the above.

35.

What economic problems confronted American farmers in the 1890s?

a)

dollars were being taken out of circulation, causing deflation

b)

The values on the farms rose

c)

Crop production boomed, decreasing the price of food

d)

All of the above

36.

Increased farm produce was the result of:

a)

cheap land, more farmers, technology

b)

expensive land, expensive technology

c)

cheap land, fewer farmers, technology

d)

more farmers, more money, expensive land

37.

Cattle that roamed wild on the grasslands of Texas

a)

Cornhusker

b)

Sooner

c)

Longhorn

d)

Cowboy

38.

Cyrus McCormick invented this to improve crop harvesting

a)

placer mining

b)

the steel plow

c)

the reaper machine

d)

the Grim Reaper

39.

The Massacre at Wounded Knee occurred because the chief's followers

a)

continued hunting buffalo and stealing cattle

b)

tried to farm on government land

c)

fled the reservation to dance the Ghost Dance that had been foolishly banned

d)

returned from Canada

40.

How did the rise of the cowboy and the cattle drives begin?

a)

when the Revolutionary War ended

b)

when the Homestead Act was passed

c)

When the railroad and the Chisolm trail met in Abiline, Kansas

d)

All of the above

41.

10 Points. TEEES Paragraph. (Topic Sentence, Explain the claim, evidence, explain the evidence, evaluate the strength of your claim based upon evidence and your analysis.) You have 15 minutes.


Question: Chief Joseph noted that white men were always in a hurry. Describe any of the factors that we studied which might have pushed or pulled settlers to hurry with a TEEES paragraph.

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