Worksheetssettling the Great plains
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
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Class
Date
1.
The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..
a)
established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
b)
offered free land to those willing to farm it.
c)
offered land to gold prospectors.
d)
promised protection from Native Americans.
2.
Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet many of their basic needs?
a)
Cotton
b)
Deer
c)
Buffalo
d)
Gold
3.
What effect did the use of barbed wire to fence off land on the open range have on cattle ranching?
a)
It harmed cattle, reducing the number that made it to market.
b)
It blocked cattle trails, making it difficult to get cattle to market.
c)
It prevented cattle from finding food, reducing the number of cattle that survived each year.
d)
It required too much effort to maintain, so ranchers abandoned their ranches.
4.
African Americans that moved west to claim land under the Homestead act of 1862 were called _____
a)
Freedmen
b)
Exodusters
c)
Westies
d)
Reconstruction
5.
What did the settlers use to build their houses out of?
a)
trees
b)
grass
c)
sod
d)
buffalo skins
6.
Why did many settlers on the Great Plains build their first house from sod instead of wood?
a)
Wood was very scarce on the Great Plains
b)
Sod is a better product
c)
Sod would hold better
7.
Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.
a)
farm cooperative
b)
sooner
c)
Chisholm Trail
d)
reservation
8.
Settlers were able to claim 160 acres in the Great Plains as a result of the
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Wounded Knee Treaty
9.
Planting seeds deep into the ground, where there is more moisture is a method called _______________________.
a)
Hydraulic Mining
b)
Sodbusting
c)
Dry Farming
d)
Wet Farming
10.
The term "sodbusters" refers to..
a)
railroad workers.
b)
Great Plains farmers.
c)
Oklahomans.
d)
cowhands.
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