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Westward Expansion Vocabulary
Test Description: Review your Westward Expansion Voc.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Homesteaders
A
49ers went west to strike it rich on gold
B
people who went west to get free land being given away in the homestead act.
C
People who liked to be home instead of going on vacation or going to work
D
People who build homes for others instead of themselves
2) the way people saw the Great Plains during westward expansion
A
treeless wasteland
B
A beautiful beach resort
C
Factory center for work
D
A great place to get a college education
3) What kind of farming was popular in the great plains
A
apple farming
B
tobacco farming
C
wind farming
D
wheat farming
4) Barbed wire
A
Invented by a Chinese man to help with exploding mountains to build railroads
B
Invented by an American to help with cattle farming
C
Invented by a student to help wire her books onto her bookbag
D
Invented by a tightrope walker to walk between the mountains
5) invented by John Deere, used to break the hard soil of the plains
A
barbed wire
B
the colt 25
C
Steel plow
D
a Gatlin gun
6) -because there were no trees, people used thick rectangles of soil with prairie grass to build homes. It was called
A
Sod
B
internet
C
steel plow
D
barbed wire
7) Transcontinental railroad connected :
A
The Atlantic and Pacific coasts
B
The northern and southern factories
C
The freedmen and the former slave owners
D
Texas and Mexico to Canada
8) 1862 to help encourage more people to move west. Gave free land to people who moved west and improved it.
A
The thirteenth amendment
B
Homestead Act
C
The 40 acres and a mule law
D
the US Constitution
9) The process of absorbing one cultural group into another
A
Humiliation
B
Hacking
C
Absorption
D
Assimilation
10) A Lakota Warrior who led a huge victory over federal troops.
A
Kylian Mbappé
B
Sitting Bull
C
Lionel Messi
D
Chief Joseph
11) tried to lead his people to Canada to escape US troops- but after traveling far, was captured after a 5 day battle.
A
Chief Joseph
B
Geronimo
C
Lionel Messi
D
Kylian Mbappé
12) An Apache leader whose tribe revolted over the poor conditions on their reservation. He was captured several times and became a celebrity.
A
Chief Joseph
B
Sitting Bull
C
Kylian Mbappé
D
Geronimo
13) a Native American victory in a battle between the US Cavalry
A
The Day of the Dead
B
The Battle of Yorktown
C
Battle of Wounded Knee
D
The Battle of Little Big Horn
14) final battle of the Indian Wars- turned into a massacre of Native American people
A
Washington DC was planned
B
The Battle of Yorktown
C
The Battle of Little Bighorn
D
Battle of Wounded Knee-
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