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Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz 2025

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were required to live on and “improve” their plot by cultivating the land.

a)
Pacific Railway Act
b)
Land Grant Act
c)

Morrill Land Grant Act 1862

d)

Homestead Act 1862

2.

Is a species of bison that is endemic (native) to North America.

a)

Bison

b)

Asian Buffalo

c)

Buffalo

d)
European bison
3.

a horrific event in American history that occurred on November 29, 1864, in the Colorado Territory. It involved an unprovoked attack by US volunteer soldiers on a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, resulting in the deaths of approximately 230 individuals, predominantly women, children, and the elderly. 

a)
Battle of Little Bighorn
b)
Trail of Tears
c)
Wounded Knee Massacre
d)
Sand Creek Massacre
4.

African Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas in the late 19th century, particularly in 1879

a)
Migrant Workers
b)
Great Migration Participants
c)
Dust Bowl Refugees
d)
Exodusters
5.

A geographical area that separates unsettled areas from the rest of the country. It is often defined as a line or area of open land with sparse settlement, sometimes defined as land with less than two people per square mile.

a)
border
b)
outpost
c)
settlement
d)
frontier
6.

The process of incorporating individuals or groups with different ethnic backgrounds into a society's dominant culture. This process involves adopting the habits, attitudes, and way of life of the dominant culture. 


a)
Integration
b)
Segregation
c)
Cultural Preservation
d)
Assimilation
7.

A law passed by Congress in 1887 that allowed the federal government to divide tribal lands into individual plots and distribute them to Native Americans. The law was named after its author, Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts.

a)
Indian Reorganization Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Treaty of Fort Laramie
8.

The first continuous railroad line to connect the east and west coasts of the United States.

a)
Pacific Railroad
b)
Union Pacific Railway
c)
Central Pacific Railroad
d)
Transcontinental Railroad
9.

An area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, 32 mi west of Brigham City and 66 mi northwest of Salt Lake City. Rising to an elevation of 4,902 feet above sea level, it lies to the north of the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake.

a)

Promontory Point, Utah

b)
Salt Lake City, Utah
c)
Great Salt Lake, Utah
d)
Box Elder County, Utah
10.

Political and spiritual leader of the Sioux warriors who destroyed General George Armstrong Custer's force in the famous battle of Little Big Horn

a)
Sitting Bull
b)
Geronimo
c)
Red Cloud
d)
Crazy Horse