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WorksheetsWestward Expansion Quiz (VA SOLs)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Choose all of the important WWE inventions/innovtions:
Barbed Wire and Raising Cattle
Steel Plow and Dry Farming
Sod Houses
Telephone
True or False: Newly freed African Americans wanted to move west for a new beginning.
True
False
What happened to Native Americans during WWE?
They became extinct
They moved to Europe
They continued living like they always had
They were moved to reservations
The battle of Wounded Knee resulted in a __________ Native Americans?
party thrown for
celebration of
massacre of
What reduced Native American land in the US?
The explosion of the Buffalo population
Broken treaties (or promises) with the US government
They didn't want the land anymore
flooding in the Great Plains
What crop was grown on the Great Plains?
Wheat
Rice
Cranberries
Cactus
True or False: Chief Joseph was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe.
True
False
Chief ____________ predicted the Native American victory at Little Bighorn
What caused the battle of Little Bighorn?
Tensions over land rights and broken treaties; opposition to WWE
Which law impacted the lifestyle of the American Indians?
Dawes Act
Choose all of the physical characteristics of the Great Plains.
flat and dry
dust storms
thunderstorms
very little rainfall
lots of rainfall
What battle ended the Indian Wars and negatively impacted Native Americans to the point that they stopped fighting?
____________ is when one culture absorbs another.
Boom Towns
Segregation
Assimilation
Ghost Towns
_____________ linked the East Coast to the West Coast, and made it easier for people and resources to travel across the country.
Western Union
The Telegraph
Wagon Trains
The Transcontinental Railroad
What was the point of American Indian boarding schools?
To educate them in better farming methods
To educate them in better ways to hunt
To keep them safe from disease
To force them into accepting and adopting "white culture"
