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Chapter 13 Changes on the Western Frontier

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?

a)

White settlers wanted the land on the Plains

b)

NativeAmericans refused to remain on the Plains

c)

Native American population decreased and needed less land

d)

The Plains failed to meet the needs of the Native American peoples

2.

Which was NOT central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians?

a)

the horse

b)

the buffalo

c)

the extended family

d)

land ownership

3.

Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains

a)

Nacirema

b)

Exodusters

c)

Populists

d)

Scalawags

4.

Most responsible for bringing an end to the wide open range?

a)

Native Americans

b)

barbed wire

c)

disappearance of the buffalo

d)

cattle trails

5.

The purpose of the Homestead Act was to

a)

prevent African Americans from settling the West

b)

settle Native Americans in farming communities

c)

make money for the government

d)

encourage white families to develop the West

6.

The Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, and Morrill Land Grant Act all

a)

encouraged settlement of the West by the American government

b)

gave land in Kansas to African Americans willing to settle and farm it

c)

promoted slavery in new territories

d)

gave 160 acres of land to Native American families

7.

This area was originally inhabited by highly developed Native Americans and became a source of conflict with white settlers

a)

The Ozarks

b)

The Great Plains

c)

The Sierra Nevadas

d)

The Great Basin

8.

Animal central to the life of the Plains Indians

a)

Prairie Dog

b)

Buffalo

c)

Wolf

d)

Whitetail Deer

9.

Allowing animals to roam freely

a)

closed range

b)

loose range

c)

oven range

d)

open range

10.

What is the Grange?

a)

An organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads.

b)

An organization through which Native Americans attempted to combat the power of the US Government.

c)

What cattlemen and farmers fought over in the "Grange Wars."

d)

A type of silo used for storing grain.

11.

What type of people were Goldbugs?

a)

bankers and business men

b)

farmers and laborers

c)

sailors and merchants

d)

tailors and gunsmiths

12.

Gave 160 acres of western land to anyone who promised to farm.

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Haymarket Act

c)

Freeland Act

d)

Indian Removal Act

13.

At what battle did the Sioux Indians defeat the US Army?

a)

Little Big Horn

b)

Bull Run

c)

Antietam

d)

Santa Fe

14.

Killed at Little Bighorn along with all his men by Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians.

a)

George A. Custer

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Henry Dawes

d)

Stonewall Jackson

15.
The purpose of the _______________ _____________ was to turn Native Americans into independent farmers. They were given land to farm and in exchange they would become citizens of the United States.
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Bill of Rights
d)
15th Amendment
16.

Political Party that pushed for an income tax & direct election of Senators

a)

Federalists

b)

Democrat

c)

Populist

d)

Republican

17.

The term for the plan to “Americanize” the Native Americans.

a)

Exoduster

b)

Ghost Dance

c)

Assimilation

d)

Soddy

18.

A large, single crop farm.

a)

Soddy

b)

Plantation

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Bonanza Farm

19.

Which of the following contributed to ending the open range:

a)

Drought

b)

Barbed wire

c)

Overgrazing

d)

all of these

20.

The political movement that tried to help the farmers and laborers was called:

a)

Populism

b)

Democracy

c)

Communism

d)

Socialism

21.

Monetary system that would use both gold and silver in exchange for paper money and checks. This would increase the amount of money in circulation.

a)

Gold Standard

b)

Bimetallism

22.

Organization created to educate farmers on financing, home loans and government control of railroads and banks

a)

Farmers Alliance

b)

Populism

c)

Soddy Movement

d)

AARP

23.

Was passed in 1862and 1890; gave federal land to states to help finance agricultural colleges

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Morrill Acts

c)

Dawes Act

d)

Treaty of Fort Laramie

24.

Last battle of the Indian wars in which the Seven cavalry killed 300 unarmed Natives

a)

Red River War

b)

Bloxholm War

c)

Battle of Wounded Knee

d)

Fork Hills Battle

25.

Act that broke up reservation lands to distribute to individual Native Americans

a)

Treaty of Fort Laramie

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Assimilation Act

26.

The grassland region of the United States/La region de pastizales de Estados Unidos

a)

La Pampa/ The Pampa

b)

Great Plains /Grandes Praderas

c)

The Steppes/ Las Estepas

27.

Why did the Americans massacre the Sioux at Wounded Knee?

a)

For revenge of the Little Big Horn

b)

for doing the Ghost Dance

c)

Because they thought they were about to attack a city.

28.

,What were 2 reasons white people settled the west? Cuales fueron dos razones para los blancos a colonizar el Oeste?

a)

to kick out the Mexicans and spread Mormonism/Para echar los Mexicanos y difundir el mormonismo

b)

To hunt buffalo and marry Native American women /para cazar bufalo y casarse con las amerindias hermosas

c)

for gold and to own their own land/para oro y tierra propias

29.

Which of the following was the pre-Populist organization to help address farmer's economic needs as well as education and social isolation?

a)

Progressives

b)

Democrats

c)

Settlement Houses

d)

Grange

30.
Which caused the rise of Populism?
a)
rising agricultural prices
b)
The use of silver instead of greenbacks
c)
Calls for racial segregation
d)
The inability of farmers to pay off their debts
31.

William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech is about...

a)

The acquisition of colonies to increase employment opportunities.

b)

The creation of a national park system

c)

A policy of bimetalism to help farmers with raising crop prices.

d)

Higher tariffs to protect American goods from foreign cometition.

32.
Silver and gold caused________money in circulation, causing prices to________. 
a)
less, increase
b)
more, increase
33.

Which of the following always hurt farmers?

a)

Gold Miners

b)

Railroads

c)

American Indians

d)

Exodusters

34.

Agricultural overproduction, scarcity of money, high shipping costs, debt, and rural isolation.

a)

Monopoly

b)

Farmers Problems

c)

Pull Factors of Westward Expansion

d)

Cross of Gold Speech

35.

Stores where farmers bought and sold goods to each other.

a)

Market

b)

Sharecrop

c)

Grange Range

d)

Cooperative

36.

Which group united to reduce the power of railroads and banks over farmers?

a)

Farm Bureau

b)

Great Plains

c)

Democrats

d)

Farmers' Alliances

37.

What explanation below explains why railroad companies were able to charge high prices to farmers to ship their crops in the late 1800s?

a)

There was a great deal of competition between various railroad companies

b)

The railroads foreclosed on many farms and took the farmers’ properties

c)

The railroad companies had essentially no competition.

d)

They were able to charge high prices because the railroad companies owned the Grange.