WorksheetsWestward Expansion Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?
The Homestead Act
The Interstate Commerce Act
The Dawes Act
The American Indian Citizenship Act
This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...
The American Indian Citizenship Act
The Homestead Act
The Dawes Act
The Meat Inspection Act
What invention limited the "open range" and led to the decline of the cowboys' importance?
The Steam Locomotive
Barbed Wire
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Bessemer Process
This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Steamboat
The Stagecoach
The Aeroplane
The 13th Amendment gave African American males the right to vote.
True
False
What precious metal was found in California in 1848, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?
Platinum
Coal
Silver
Gold
How did the arrival of settlers change the Great Plains?
Shift from hunting to farming
Increase of the white settlers in the West
Expansion of railroads and the rise of new towns
All of the Above
Which statement accurately describes the development of the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century?
Great profits were earned there in the steel industry.
Railroads decreased in importance.
Immigrants could not afford to farm these lands.
Technological innovations made farming there possible.
Which factor helped farmers on the Great Plains overcome opposition from cattle ranchers?
The farmers allied with Native American Indians.
Barbed wire allowed farmers to enclose their lands.
Heavy rains made the Great Plains more suitable to planting than grazing.
Ranchers refused to divide up the open range.
How did the passage of the Dawes Act affect Native American Indians?
It supported their existing cultural traditions
It started a series of Indian Wars on the Great Plains
It attempted to assimilate them into mainstream American culture
It forced their removal from areas east of the Mississippi River
How did the expansion of railroad transportation most benefit farmers in the United States?
By raising the consumer price of agricultural products
By increasing the variety of locally grown crops
By providing farmers with affordable access to distant markets
By encouraging farmers to form the first agricultural cooperatives
Homesteaders on the Great Plains found it necessary to build the type of house shown in the photograph because
the ground was not stable enough to support heavier structures
unpredictable weather conditions required settlers to build shelter rapidly
access to timber was limited by distance and lack of transportation
settlers lacked the skill required to build more-permanent structures
Railroads hired Chinese immigrants to build tracks on the transcontinental railroad. Which statement explains the condition in which Chinese immigrants worked?
They were invited to join railroad labor unions
They were recruited to train new railroad workers
They worked for low wages to qualify for citizenship
They worked in harsh conditions because of prejudice
During the 1870s, the Granger movement
attracted the support of many western farmers
because it proposed that
the money supply should be deflated by removing paper currency from circulation
shipping rates and grain storage fees charged by railroads should be regulated
immigrants should be given land on the Great Plains
the government should control the development of resources in the West
The Granger movement and the formation of the
Populist Party were similar in that each was an
effort to
end the practice of sharecropping
improve conditions for farmers
provide housing for urban dwellers
increase profits for railroad companies
All of the following were effects of the government's policies on Native Americans EXCEPT:
Native Americans were moved to reservations.
Native Americans died from new diseases.
Native Americans were paid well for their land.
Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.
What did Native Americans use the Buffalo for?
Food
Shelter
Clothing
All of the above
What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans?
the railroads helped the NA move east
Native Americans got jobs on the railroads
the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supply and resources
the railroads increased the amount of land the NA had
The reason why raw and manufactured goods could be transported more easily
the trails that people followed across the country
the growth of railroads
people delivered products on their wagons
stores popped up in the Great Plains
Many people settled the American west because of:
availability of cheap land
the creation of the RR
Cattle ranching and mining
all of the above
As soldiers disarmed warriors, this became the last major conflict with Native Americans. About 300 hundred Sioux were killed, including women and children.
Wounded Knee
Battle of Little Big Horn
reservation system
buffalo extermination
aka Custer's Last Stand, worst US Army defeat by Native Americans, motivated heavy push to move Indians to reservations
Battle of Little Big Horn
reservation system
buffalo extermination
sovereignty
created to keep Native Americans off of lands Americans wished to settle, while allowing some sovereignty, cultural and social traditions.
reservation system
buffalo extermination
sovereignty
railroad expansion
its slaughter was once seen as a way to starve Native Americans into submission
buffalo extermination
sovereignty
railroad expansion
legislation
name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas after the Civil War
Exodusters
immigrants
push/pull factors
Ghost Dance movement
believed this would bring back dead spirits to help restore Indian lands, food supplies, and culture
Ghost Dance movement
Las Gorras Blancas/The Whitecaps
Chinese Community Centers
ethnic enclaves
by breaking down the picture, what term is the picture depicting?
manifest destiny
homestead act
dawes act
transcontinental railroad
what vast land of area is located on this map?
The east
the central west
western plateau
Great Plains
Which of these was a benefit of the transcontinental railroad?
it created a way for people to move across the continent
It allowed for more peaceful contact with the Natives
It made trade easier with Canada
It made goods more expensive and led to greater profts
Populism appealed to farmers because:
It was a major pro-immigrant platform
It really helped the wealthy industrialists
It promised sweeping change to institute fairness against big companies and a chance to pay off debts
It's goal was to appeal to a small group and to build up the wealth of the few
The artwork displayed above best reflects American society during-
the Age of Jackson
Westward Expansion
the Second Great Awakening
Sectionalism
The daily oppression of Jim Crow laws, convinced many in the African American community to leave the South altogether. Due to the Homestead Act, many African Americans moving west were known as...
Bubba
crows
Exodusters
jings
Demand for beef increased due to the Transcontinental Railroad, cowboys drove livestock along trails to be shipped East by railroad. Famous trails include the Chisholm and Goodnight-Loving.
Great Bluff Drives
Great Plains Drives
Cattle Drives
Sierra Nevada Drives
This invention allowed dry-land farming by bringing up underground water to irrigate crops on the Great Plains.
irrigation pipes
cistern
windmill
wells
The United States sought to transform the Native American way of life to European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920.
cultural convergence
cultural divergence
cultural nativism
cultural assimilation
the purpose was to provide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families.
Grange
Gold Standard
Soddy
These groups included others who sympathized with farmers. Alliances sent lecturers from town to town to educate people about topics such as lower interest rates on loans and government control of railroads and banks.
Farmers' Alliances
Cattle Drive Alliances
Great Plains Alliance
the movement of the people—was born with the founding of the Populist, or People's, Party, in 1892.
Populism
Dawes Act
Gold Standard
a monetary system in which the government would give citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks.
Gold Standard
Bimetallism
Currency
All of the following were Populist demands except which one?
open ballot elections
graduated personal income tax
easier access to credit
restriction of immigration
Which of the following would have not been a member of the Populist Party?
farmer
factory worker
banker
miner
Which contributed to the rise of Populism?
the use of silver instead of greenbacks
calls for unrestricted immigration
the inability of farmers to pay off their debts
Which candidate was a Populist candidate?
Lord Voldemort
