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Chapter18 Time Line vocab quest

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which event on the timeline is specifically linked with ruins shown in a photo and occurred in 1871? (Refer to the visual described.)

a)

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

b)

Great Chicago Fire destroys most of city

c)

Stanley and Livingstone meet in Africa

d)

Suez Canal opens

2.

Which president’s term includes the years 1869–1877 on the timeline?

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

d)

James Garfield

3.

In 1882, which U.S. action regarding immigration is shown on the timeline?

a)

The Homestead Act expands settlement

b)

Congress limits immigration with the Chinese Exclusion Act

c)

Establishment of Ellis Island as an immigration station

d)

Repeal of all immigration quotas

4.

Which pair of events are both listed under world events in the 1880s–1890s?

a)

Geronimo surrenders; Populist Party forms

b)

Triple Alliance forms; Trans-Siberian railroad construction begins

c)

Chinese Exclusion Act; Sierra Club organizes

d)

Great Chicago Fire; Suez Canal opens

5.

According to the timeline, what happened in the United States in 1886?

a)

Geronimo surrenders to U.S. military; U.S. accepts Statue of Liberty from France

b)

Populist Party forms; Sierra Club organizes

c)

Congress passes the Homestead Act

d)

First modern Olympics held in Athens

6.

Which president appears twice with non-consecutive terms in the 1880s–1890s portion of the timeline?

a)

Chester A. Arthur

b)

Benjamin Harrison

c)

Grover Cleveland

d)

James Garfield

7.

Reasoning with chronology: Place these presidents in the correct order of service based on the timeline from 1861 to 1881.

a)

Abraham Lincoln → Andrew Johnson → Ulysses S. Grant → Rutherford B. Hayes → James Garfield

b)

Andrew Johnson → Abraham Lincoln → Ulysses S. Grant → Rutherford B. Hayes → James Garfield

c)

Abraham Lincoln → Ulysses S. Grant → Andrew Johnson → Rutherford B. Hayes → James Garfield

d)

Abraham Lincoln → Andrew Johnson → Rutherford B. Hayes → Ulysses S. Grant → James Garfield

8.

What is a cooperative?

a)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

b)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

c)

A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture

d)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

9.

Who was the Sioux military leader that led army troops to a deadly ambush?

a)

Leland Stanford

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Crazy Horse

d)

Henry Comstock

10.

What is currency?

a)

A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture

b)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

c)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

d)

Money

11.

What is the Dawes Act?

a)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

b)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

c)

A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture

d)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

12.

What is dry farming?

a)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

b)

A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture

c)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

d)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

13.

Who were the Exodusters?

a)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

b)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

c)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

d)

African Americans who moved from post-reconstruction South to Kansas

14.

What does it mean to extract something?

a)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

b)

To remove

c)

A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture

d)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

15.

What is the Homestead Act?

a)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

b)

Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years

c)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

d)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

16.

Who was Leland Stanford?

a)

Governor of California, United States railroad executive, and founder of Stanford University

b)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

c)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

d)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

17.

What is the Long Drive?

a)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

b)

A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture

c)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

d)

The name for the moving of cattle across the plains to the railroad (1000 Miles)

18.

What are longhorns?

a)

A tough breed of cattle named for their prominent horns

b)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

c)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

d)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

19.

What is the Morrill Act?

a)

A group of people who pool their resources in order to buy and sell more efficiently

b)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

c)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

d)

Gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges

20.

What does it mean to be nomadic?

a)

A name given to Great Plains farmers

b)

A law that broke up reservations and gave individuals plots of land to Native Americans

c)

A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture

d)

Moving from place to place with no permanent home