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The West/Expense of Expansion

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Lakota Sioux chief defeated the US Army at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

a)

Geronimo

b)

Chief Joseph

c)

Sitting Bull

d)

General George Custer

2.

Which Nez Perce chief lead his tribe vs. U.S. Army as the tribe tried to make it to Canada?

a)

Geronimo

b)

Chief Joseph

c)

Sitting Bull

d)

General George Custer

3.

Which of the following an Apache leader best known for resisting Mexicans and Americans who attempted to remove his people from their tribal lands in the Apache Wars?

a)

Geronimo

b)

Chief Joseph

c)

Sitting Bull

d)

General George Custer

4.

Which group of people was most negatively effected by Westward Expansion?

a)

Native Americans

b)

African Americans

c)

Euro-Americans

d)

Southern farmers

5.

These towns grew around discovery of gold and silver in the West

a)

Cowtowns

b)

Railroad Towns

c)

Boomtowns

d)

Homesteads

6.

How did the Transcontinental Railroad affect Native American tribes?

a)

It had little to no impact on their lives

b)

It provided new economic opportunities

c)

It led to significant loss of land and disruption of their traditional lifestyles

d)

It improved relations between Native American tribes and settlers

7.

Select the 3 answers that reflect effects of Westward Expansion

a)

Settlement of Plains Became Harder

b)

Settlement of Plains Became Easier

c)

Buffalo Almost Extinct

d)

End of Plains Indians' culture

e)

National Economy Declined

8.

What law gave people 160 acres of land for a small fee and a pledge to live on the land for 5 years?

a)

Indian Citizenship Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

9.

What law encouraged tribes to sell their land and made Native Americans give up their tribal practices?

a)

Indian Citizenship Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

10.

Why did the US government want the Native American on reservations?

a)

to teach them new skills

b)

to open up tribal lands for settlers

c)

to keep buffaloes from becoming extinct

d)

to raise more cattle

e)

Gold or other resources found on the land

11.

Plains Indians relied on the buffalo/bison for which of the following? Select 3

a)

main source of food

b)

used them to build sod houses

c)

used the bones to make tools

d)

to help them be better farmers

e)

used the hide to make clothing

12.

Which immigrant group came in large numbers to help build the transcontinental railroads (Central Pacific)?

a)

Chinese

b)

Polish

c)

Mexicans

d)

Germans

13.

Which of the following innovations helped farmers find water in the dry Great Plains?

a)

Steel Plow

b)

Windmills

c)

Sod House

d)

Barbed Wire Fences

14.

Which of the following innovations helped farmers break through the hard soil on the Great Plains?

a)

Steel Plow

b)

Windmills

c)

Sod House

d)

Barbed Wire Fences

15.

Which of the following innovations helped farmers adapt to the lack of trees on the Great Plains?

a)

Steel Plow

b)

Windmills

c)

Sod House

d)

Dry Farming

16.

Which of the following innovations helped farmers keep free roaming cattle off their land and put an end of the open range?

a)

Steel Plow

b)

Dry Farming

c)

Transcontinental Railroads

d)

Barbed Wire

17.

Which of the following crops grew best on the Great Plains?

a)

Sugar

b)

Tobacco

c)

Wheat

d)

Cotton

18.

Which of the following innovations improved transportation of goods and people during the Westward Movement?

a)

Cattle Drives

b)

Ships

c)

Transcontinental Railroads

d)

Covered Wagons

19.

Which animal did ranchers raise on the Great Plains to put on railroads to sell to the East?

a)

Buffalo

b)

Cattle

c)

Wheat

d)

Sheep

20.

Select all of the features and climate of the Great Plains (3)

a)

Mountains

b)

Flatlands

c)

Dust storms

d)

High rainfall

e)

Low rainfall

21.

Select all that are TRUE about the Black Hills, South Dakota territory

a)

Sacred (special) to Native American tribes

b)

Gold was discovered and thousands of miners came here

c)

1st discovery of gold in the West. 1848. Led to the Gold Rush of 1849.

d)

Battle of Little Bighorn was fought here; Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse vs. Gen. Custer

e)

Where the two railroads met to complete the first transcontinental railroad

22.

Religious ceremony performed by Native Americans to bring back the bison and make the white man leave. Outlawed by U.S. Government.

a)

Carlisle School

b)

Ghost Dance

c)

Exodusters

d)

Reservation

23.

Why did people change their views about the Great Plains and chose to settle there?

a)

Plains Indians were nomadic to follow the buffalo

b)

Mining of gold and silver

c)

New inventions and technology were introduced

d)

Homestead Act passed and gave away cheap land to farmers

e)

Frequent dust storms and low rainfall

24.

What is the name for former enslaved African Americans who moved west to be farmers?

a)

Exodusters

b)

Sodbusters

c)

Cowhands

d)

Abolitionists

25.

What is the nickname for the farmers who settled on the Great Plains early during Westward Expansion?

a)

Exodusters

b)

Sodbusters

c)

Cowhands

d)

Miners

26.

Which of the following happened at the Indian boarding schools like Carlisle School?

a)

Long hair allowed

b)

Hair cut short

c)

Must only speak English

d)

Must wear Euro-American clothing

e)

American Indian children stayed with their family

27.

What were some reasons the U.S. Army and the Native American tribes had wars after 1865?

a)

U.S. Government ordered the tribes to go to reservations and tribes resisted

b)

Gold was found on tribal lands

c)

The outlawed Ghost Dance was practiced by Sitting Bull and many tribes

d)

All of the above

28.

Which are TRUE statements about how American Indians viewed the buffalo/bison?

a)

Source of everything to survive. Kill only what is needed to meet our needs.

b)

They destroy crops and are a nuisance to farmers

c)

They rip up railroad tracks and interfere with building more railroads

d)

Their hides are valuable and we should kill as many as we can

e)

They are sacred (special). We honor them.

29.

Which of the following are PULLS (positive) for people to move to the West?

a)

Crowded cities

b)

Adventure

c)

Own Land

d)

Wealth (Get Rich)

e)

Expensive

30.

What are the two railroads that built the first transcontinental railroad?

a)

Union Pacific and Dawes

b)

Dawes and Homestead

c)

Northern Pacific and Central Pacific

d)

Central Pacific and Union Pacific

31.

What is an area of land set aside for use by the Native American tribes called?

a)

Reservation

b)

Boarding Schools

c)

Homestead

d)

Boomtown

32.

Which actions by the U.S. government negatively impacted the Native Americans?

a)

Dawes Act passed

b)

Forcing tribes to reservations

c)

Fighting the Indian Wars (1865-1890)

d)

Encouraging tribes to practice Ghost Dance

e)

Honoring treaties made with Native American tribes

33.

What do you call the negative things that make people leave a place?

a)

Push Factors

b)

Pull Factors