WorksheetsWestward Expansion After the Recocnstruciton
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Which of these changed the motivation of the Union and caused the war to be a moral fight
Compromise of 1850
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Which of these are an examples of states rights?
Since the Union was created by the states, they could leave at any time.
The federal government has power over the states
Revolution is never justified when officials are properly elected
Secession is a bad idea and should be the last resort
Provided citizenship and equal protection of the laws to all born in the United States.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
Radical Republicans
Wanted Southern states to rejoin the Union quickly
Persuaded President Johnson to pardon Confederate leaders
Opposed the 14th Amendment
Wanted to punish the South for seceding
What was the nickname for a white Southerner who supported Radical Reconstruction?
Carpetbagger
Freedman
Scalawag
Sharecropper
Which of the following describes the relationship between Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson?
Jim Crow segregation laws compelled Plessy to protest segregated trains.
Jim Crow segregation laws were made possible by the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
Plessy v. Ferguson hoped to end the segregation common during Jim Crow.
Plessy v. Ferguson made Jim Crow laws widely accepted, but not officially legal.
African Americans who left the South and migrated to the west to find a better life were:
Exodusters
Indentured Servants
Freedmen
Settlers
The legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences is
Integration
Conflagration
Confederation
Segregation
What Native American led a series of raids against Mexican and American forces AND ESCAPED their capture?
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Who was NOT allowed to hold office during Reconstruction?
Confederate Leaders
African American Men
Sodbusters
Carpet baggers
What American Indian leader was forced into relocating to Canada from his traditional land to live on a reservation?
Chief Jospeh
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Great Plains?
Flat lands
Grassland
Heavy amounts of rainfall
Frequent dust storms
What was the nickname for Great Plains farmers?
Sod busters
Great Plainers
Carpet baggers
Ol' dusty boys
What invention provided faster transportation and connect the East and West coasts of America?
Steel Plow
Sod house
Transcontinental railroad
Windmills
Which of the following was NOT a reason Native Americans opposed westward expansion?
Loss of rights
Reduction of population
Lifestyle changes
Opportunity to own land
This image shows the same person.. What does it represent?
Motivations to move on Great Plains
Assimilation
Increase of Buffalo population
Disease
What did barbed wire do?
Protect your animals
Keep unwanted animals off your land
Keep people off your land
ALL OF THE ABOVE
The Great Plains was in what part of the country?
Northeast
Southeast
Midwest
Starting in 1949, what first caused people to move out West during the 1850s?
Miners found silver and gold deposits.
Buffalo hides were extremely valuable.
Free land was being given out by the federal government.
The Transcontinental Railroad made it easy to move West.
Comstock Lode was...
A fort in California
A major silver and gold ore discovery that made more people go West
A Native American settlement
The name of a famous railroad company
Based on the provided image, what can be gathered about how miners impacted the land in California and out West?
Miners negatively impacted the environment by cutting down trees and changing the landscape drastically.
Miners made sure to protect the environment.
Miners improved the land by replanting trees used.
Miners did not have any significant impact on the natural environment of the West.
Ghost Towns were created when...
Mining towns stopped finding gold and silver.
Native Americans attacked and scared off settlers
Cattle herding settlements moved on.
Native Americans were pushed off of their land.
What was the purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?
The railroad connected the North and South after the Civil War ended.
The railroad allowed Native Americans to become apart of mainstream U.S. culture.
The railroad was never completed.
The railroad made transporting people and goods from east to west easier.
How was the Transcontinental Railroad paid for?
Money was given to the railroad companies.
Private companies invested in the project in hopes of making money.
Land grants were given out as payment by the government.
The federal government worked with Native American tribes to make it.
Who made the Transcontinental Railroad?
Chinese and Irish immigrants
Native Americans
German and Italian Immigrants
English and French Immigrants
Where was the Transcontinental Railroad completed?
Wounded Knee
Little Bighorn
Fort Laramie
Promontory Point, Utah
What was a NEGATIVE impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?
The hunting of buffalo increased, as hides and meat could be moved easily.
It made traveling West cheaper and easier.
The East and West were more closely linked.
More states entered the Union.
What did railroad companies do with extra land from land grants?
They gave it back to Native Americans
They left it alone.
They sold it to potential settlers back East.
They expanded the railroad greatly.
Which of the following gave out free land to potential farmers out West?
The Reservation Act
The Homestead Act of 1862
The Dawes Act of 1887
The Reconstruction Acts
What were the homsteaders forced to build their houses out of on the Great Plains?
Wood
Sod
Rocks
Sand
How did Barbed Wire and farmers impact cattlemen out West?
There was no significant impact
Cattlemen and farmers worked together out West.
Barbed wire and farmers brought an end to the cattlemen's way of life.
Native Americans and Cattlemen had similar ways of life.
Which event came first?
Settlers came West in search of gold and silver.
Native Americans were forced onto land reservations.
The Transcontinental Railroad was built.
The Homestead Act allowed for individuals to settle the West.
In what ways was the buffalo used by the Native Americans?
They crafted weapons and tools from the bones.
The meat was their primary source of food.
They used the hides for clothing and shelter.
All of the above.
Which of the following battles was a VICTORY for Native Americans?
The Battle of Wounded Knee
The Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of Fort Laramie
Native Americans had no victories against the US Military.
Which of the following best describes the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Both sides were evenly matched.
Native Americans had an advantage, but failed to win the battle.
The Native Americans had planned a surprise attack, and they won.
The battle was more like a massacre, and the Native Americans were defeated
Which of the following forced Native Americans to become farmers?
The Dawes Act of 1887
The Homestead Act
The Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Reservation Act
The Oklahoma Land Rush gave away _________ land.
Homestead / Settler
Cattlemen
Native American
US Government owned
What led to conflict with Native Americans out West?
Miners stole all of the Native American gold.
Native Americans started the conflict.
Settlers refused to trade with the Native Americans.
The slaughtering of Buffalo put the Native American lives at risk
Choose the 4 ways American Indians were impacted by the arrival of the pioneers:
Opposition by the Native Americans
Forced relocation from traditional lands to reservations
Reduced population through warfare and disease
Made friends with the Native Americans
Assimilation attempts and lifesytle changes
Choose the 3 reasons for the Westward Expansion:
Possibility of obtaining wealth (discovery of gold and silver)
Available work in factories
A desire for adventure
Opportunties to own land
What was the purpose of the two trails marked on the above map?
To ship cotton from southern Texas to factories in the north.
To allow easy access to the Gulf of Mexico in order to ship goods.
To allow ranchers to move their cattle north to railroads which shipped cattle east.
To allow army troops in Texas to easily and quickly move north to help defend against attacks from American Indians.
Why did cattle drives end?
Too many cattle
Supply took over demand
Sheep ranchers took over land
Expansion of railroads and barbed wire fences
Rapid growth of the cattle industry occurred because of
demand for beef in the East
High Speed trains
lack of salt pork
Mad Cow disease killed the cattle in the west
What is the definition of open range?
the extreme limit of settled land which lies wilderness, especially referring to the western US
wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes along it, used to make fences
a large yard containing pens and sheds in which livestock is kept and sorted
a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers
What is the movement of cattle in large herds to a stockyard or market?
Ranchero
Drive
Open Range
Why did the great Texas cattle drives end?
Texas fever caused Kansas and other states to quarantine Texas herds.
Cattle prices fell.
More farmers and ranchers installed barbed wire, which blocked the trails.
Rail lines made cattle drives unnecessary.
All choices are correct!
Boomtowns
The railroad industry ______________ after the Civil War.
decreased
increased
Who did the National Grange help?
Farmers
Miners
Bankers
Loggers
What was a goal of the National Grange?
fix railroad shipping rates
fix suffrage
fix discrimination
fix child labor
What political group grew out of the Grange Organization?
Democrats
Republicans
Populists
Independents
The Pacific Ocean is located along which United States coast?
North
South
East
West
Which statement best completes the diagram?
The Texas Panhandle is divided up into farms.
Texas ranchers drive herds of cattle to Abilene, Kansas, for shipment to Chicago.
The Plains Indians prevent ranchers from sending their cattle to Northern markets.
States in the Northeast develop their own cattle ranches.
The invention of barbed wire and the use of windmills led to —
an increase in the number of cattle trails from Texas to Kansas
the expansion of farming on the plains of West Texas
a decrease in the population of West Texas
the assimilation of the Plains Indians into Anglo culture
Which statement best describes the attitude of most Texas farmers towards the railroads?
Farmers refused to use the railroads because they preferred to ship their goods via flatboat along Texas’s many rivers.
Farmers resented the railroads for receiving the state’s largest land grants.
Farmers demanded higher rates on the railroad to limit competition over goods shipped to Texas from the East.
Farmers pressed for government regulation of the railroads to prevent unfair rates and other abuses.
How did Congressional Reconstruction differ from Presidential Reconstruction?
It was more lenient towards the Southern states
It focused solely on economic recovery
It imposed stricter conditions on the Southern states
It ignored the rights of freed slaves
What was the main goal of Presidential Reconstruction after the Civil War?
To punish the Southern states
To quickly restore the Union
To redistribute land to former slaves
To establish military rule in the South
What was a major consequence of the expansion of the beef industry in Texas?
Decrease in cattle population
Increase in vegetarianism
Growth of towns and cities
Decline in railroad construction
Which cattle trail was known for being the longest and most heavily used?
Goodnight-Loving Trail
Chisholm Trail
Shawnee Trail
Western Trail
During which period did the Cattle Kingdom in Texas reach its peak?
Late 1800s
Early 1800s
Mid-1900s
Early 1700s
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the success of the beef industry in Texas?
The invention of refrigerated rail cars
The vast expanses of open range for cattle grazing
The high demand for beef in the Eastern United States
The discovery of gold in Texas
An ideology where supporters of a political party support the common people
Populism
Laissez-faire
Liberty
Egalitarianism
A broad expanse of flat land extending from Canada down to North Texas; Prairie land
frontier
Seneca Falls Convention
The Great Plains
Homestead Act of 1862
Resulted in the deaths of approximately 300 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children by the U.S. Army, marking the end of the Indian Wars and symbolizing the violent repression of Native American resistance to U.S. government policies.
Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Buffalo Soldiers
Exodusters
Schools founded to end Native-Americans culture, religion, their way of life
Exodusters
Wounded Knee Massacre
Indian Boarding Schools
Buffalo Soldiers
A rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership
Urbanization
open-range ranching
Exodusters
Buffalo Soldiers
A time period after the Civil War; The beginning of Jim Crow Laws
The Gilded Age
Foundations of American History
Reconstruction Era
Progressive Era
Choose the correct definition of pioneer.
a person who is among the last to settle in a city or town
a person who builds trails for settlers to use
a person who is among the first to settle in an unsettled area
a person who is an American Indian
This type of land is called
desert
plains
valley
mountains
Native Americans lost their homelands mostly due to:
droughts.
selling their land.
fights breaking out.
treaties being broken.
Select every correct physical feature of the Great Plains.
Low Rainfall
A lot of Rainfall
Flatlands
Frequent (often) Dust Storms
High Mountains
Planting seeds deep into the ground, where there is more moisture is a method called _______________________.
Hydraulic Mining
Sodbusting
Dry Farming
Wet Farming
