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WorksheetsWestward Expansion Post Civil War
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
The harsh “vigilante justice,” also known as frontier justice, of the mining camps developed because there were no
Churches
Mayors
Police
Schools
Ranchers drove their cattle from Texas to Abilene, Kansas, because
the people of Abilene didn’t raise cattle for themselves.
from there, the cattle could be shipped by railroad to Chicago and markets in the East.
the people of Abilene didn’t raise cattle for themselves.
the cattle were safer there, away from thieves.
Which of the following is not a reason for the end of the great age of the cowboy?
Two fierce winters and a hot, dry summer led ranchers to pen in their cattle.
Many people in the East began to raise their own cattle.
Ranchers moved farther north and were closer to the railroads.
Farmers moved in and took up much of the land.
Which of the following is not a reason for the settling of the Great Plains?
free land offered through the Homestead Act of 1862
cheap land advertised and sold by the railroads
a temporary increase in the amount of rainfall
wars between sheep herders and cattle ranchers
The main reason that settlers on the plains built sod houses is that
they were warm in the winter.
there were few trees from which to build wooden houses.
they were cool in the summer.
they were more attractive than wooden and stone houses.
What caused the worst disaster faced by farmers on the Great Plains?
very wet summers
construction of railroads
swarming grasshoppers
bitterly cold winters
A census measures
the amount of company profits.
the size of acreage.
the number and value of minerals.
the number of people or population.
What was Seward's Folly?
the passage of the Homestead Act
the closing of the frontier
the purchase of Alaska
the construction of the transcontinental railroad
Who was the most likely to become rich on the mining frontier?
a mining company
a storekeeper
a hotel owner
an individual miner
Who helped build the transcontinental railroad?
settlers
immigrants
miners
cowboys
On the long drive, cowboys worried most about the danger of
thieves
floods
stampedes
diseases
Who said, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country"?
Billy the Kid
William Seward
Jesse James
Horace Greeley
Which invention was not used to help people farm the plains?
barbed wire
steel plows
wooden fences
dry farming methods
Under the Homestead Act of 1862, U.S. Citizens and immigrants were given free what
animals
farm equipment
land
housing
