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Westward Expansion
Test Description: Westward Expansion Vocab
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Unsettled or sparsely settled area occupied largely by Native Americans
A
Great Plains
B
Reservation
C
Frontier
D
Boomtown
2) The area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains (mostly flat land)
A
Great Plains
B
Frontier
C
Reservation
D
Boomtown
3) A town that has a sudden burst of economic or population growth
A
Great Plains
B
Reservation
C
Boomtown
D
Frontier
4) Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes
A
Reservation
B
Great Plains
C
Boomtown
D
Frontier
5) Land to settle on and farm
A
Homestead
B
Massacre at Wounded Knee
C
Homestead Act
D
Battle at Little Bighorn
6) Federal law that gave 160 acres of land to someone willing to improve the land for 5 years
A
Homestead Act
B
Homestead
C
Sodbuster
D
Frontier
7) A farmer on the frontier
A
Homestead
B
Little Bighorn
C
Sodbuster
D
Homestead Act
8) A Battle between the Sioux (Sitting Bull Crazy Horse) and the U.S. Cavalry (Custer) over westward expansion into Sioux territory. The Sioux won.
A
Transcontinental Railroad
B
Little Bighorn
C
Sodbuster
D
Wounded Knee
9) Chief of the Nez Perce Indians. “I will fight no more forever.”
A
George Custer
B
Chief Joseph
C
Geronimo
D
Sitting Bull
10) Leader of the Apaches. He led a major resistance movement against the government and tried to keep his people from being put on reservations.
A
Sitting Bull
B
Chief Joseph
C
Geronimo
D
George Custer
11) Chief of the Sioux Indian Tribe. He led the Sioux in the Battle of Little Bighorn against Colonel George Custer of the U.S. Cavalry.
A
Custer
B
Sitting Bull
C
Chief Joseph
D
Geronimo
12) The first railroad that spanned from the east coast to the west coast--built in the 1860’s
A
Promontory Point
B
Transcontinental Railroad
C
Central Pacific
D
Sacramento
13) A massacre of Lakota Indians in South Dakota by the U.S. Cavalry. Over 300 men, women, and children were killed. This massacre ended armed resistance from the Sioux Indians.
A
Buffalo Soldier
B
Promontory Point
C
Little Bighorn
D
Wounded Knee
14) A name given by Native Americans to African Americans serving in the U.S. Army in the west
A
Buffalo Warriors
B
Sitting Bull
C
Buffalo Wings
D
Buffalo Soldiers
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