WorksheetsThe American West
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
The Homestead Act of 1862
Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
Said the Frontier made America unique.
was about manifest destiny.
dealt with the Civil War.
created land grants to settlers.
The Frontier was closed in what year?
Mining the western United States was dominated by
large mining corporations
the government
unions
individual prospectors.
The motivation for creating Indian Reservations was
to convince Native Americans to live like white Americans.
Lt. Colonel George Custer went to battle with the Sioux at
Buffalo herds were decimated by
American policy toward Native Americans shifted from sending them west to sending them to
Which animal did Plains Indians depend on for their survival?
What was an Exoduster?
What caused the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889?
What was the Ghost Dance Movement?
A spiritual movement among Native American tribes in the 19th century. Indian dead would rise, the Buffalo would return and settlers would leave.
What lead to conflict on the open range of the Great Plains?
The closure of the Plains by farmers
How did Barbed Wire effect life on the Great Plains?
The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 did the following
The Morrill Act of 1862 granted
Federal lands to states to create colleges.
