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WorksheetsThe West US EOC Review
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The first railroad to cross the United States was the....
a)
Union Pacific Railroad
b)
Central Pacific Railroad
c)
Missouri Railroad
d)
Transcontinental Railroad
2.
Which group lost the most from the building of the railroads?
a)
Settlers
b)
Western citizens
c)
The government
d)
Native Americans
3.
_______________ were created along the railroad with stores as it was being built.
a)
Vigilantes
b)
Boom towns
c)
Nitro-glycerin
d)
Comstock Lode
4.
The Chinese workers were hired to work on the railroad because they would work as cheap _____________________.
a)
Boom towns
b)
subsidies
c)
vigilantes
d)
manual labor
5.
All of the following are reasons why the Chinese were excluded under the Chinese Exclusion Act EXCEPT:
a)
they practiced a different culture
b)
violence erupted
c)
they stole white workers' jobs
d)
they worked too hard
6.
Which of the following BEST explains how railroads stimulated the national economy in the late 1800s?
a)
They increased the number of railroad barons
b)
They allowed a large number of people to enter the United States
c)
They efficiently allowed products to be shipped across the country
d)
They diminished the power of monopolies in the railroad industry
7.
Invention of the steel plow, the passage of the Homestead Act, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad all contributed to the
a)
development of the Great Plains
b)
growth of the plantation system of agriculture
c)
extension of slavery into the western territories
d)
gold rushes in California and Nevada
8.
Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains?
a)
steel plow
b)
reaper
c)
windmill
d)
barbed wire
9.
boomtown
a)
A town that makes loud noises.
b)
A town that sprang up near an important mining stake, rail center or cattle center.
c)
Towns built near the ocean
d)
Towns that last a long time.
10.
In the late 1840's many people moved to California to
a)
build sod houses
b)
look for gold
c)
fight native americans
d)
trade with Europe
11.
The herding of cattle from Texas to the railroad is known as the
a)
openrange
b)
cow town
c)
long drive
d)
boom town
12.
This gave 160 acres of land for free to anyone willing to work the land for 5 years
a)
The Trail of Tears
b)
The Homestead Act
c)
The union Pacific RR company
d)
Prospectors
13.
What idea(s) does this picture represent?
a)
American Justice
b)
Freedom and Liberty
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Empire and Power
14.
What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Morril Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Reconstruction Act
15.
As settlers moved onto the Great Plains in the 1800s, they needed to build shelters. One way that many settlers met this need was by building sod houses. Why did many settlers build houses made out of sod?
a)
Sod houses would typically last longer than houses made out of other materials.
b)
Sod houses cost little to build because sod was widely available.
c)
Sod houses were more fashionable than other types of buildings
d)
Sod houses were better suited for cold weather than other buildings.
16.
When the mines ran out in Boom-towns and the people moved on it often created ____________
a)
Slow towns
b)
Small towns
c)
Ghost towns
d)
Mini towns
17.
What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?
a)
Hayes Act
b)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
c)
Bland-Allison Act
d)
Dawes Act
18.
Of the following, what was the most important invention/improvement responsible for the growth of American industry?
a)
factories
b)
railroads
c)
corporations
d)
telephone
19.
What common trait was shared by different Plains Indian cultures?
a)
They are preferred to live on reservations.
b)
They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.
c)
They all viewed nature as sacred.
d)
They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.
20.
Who were the "Exodusters"?
a)
Mexican Americans who fled after the Mexican-American War
b)
African Americans who fled the South after Reconstruction
c)
Chinese Americans who fled the North after the Gold Rush
d)
Native Americans who fled the East after the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
21.
The celebration which promised that if the Native Americans returned to their old beliefs and participated in a special ritual that they would be allowed to return to their land was
a)
the Ghost Dance
b)
called concentration.
c)
assimilation.
d)
the Dawes Act.
22.
Who led 600 American soldiers in an attack against 12,000 Sioux and Cheyenne in the Battle of Little Big Horn?
a)
John Chivington
b)
George Armstrong Custer
c)
Sitting Bull
d)
Phillip Sherman.
23.
An agricultural system in the South following the Civil War in which a landowner and/or creditor provided a person (without money) access to land, equipment, and supplies in exchange for part of the crops produced was
a)
nativism
b)
assimilation.
c)
sharecropping
d)
tenant farming
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