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Western Expansion
Test Description: USII.2a 4a
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Before the Civil War, the Great Plains was seen as a ______.
A
Rich Environment
B
Treeless wasteland
C
Capitol City
D
Concrete Jungle
2) All of the following are characteristics of the Great Plains EXCEPT:
A
Tall Mountains
B
Low Rainfall
C
Land eroded by wind and rain
D
Frequent Dust storms
3) Which of the following is NOT an adaptation that helped settlers on the Great Plains?
A
Corn
B
Sod Houses
C
Dry Farming
D
Beef Cattle Raising
4) Which law directly impacted the lifestyle of American Indians by encouraging many white settlers to move west?
A
Great Plains Law
B
Homestead Act
C
Settlement Act
D
Indian Removal Act
5) Who led the U.S. troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn and lost his life along with hundreds of other troops?
A
Robert E. Lee
B
George Armstrong Custer
C
Sitting Bull
D
Ulysses S. Grant
6) American Indians were forced to relocate from their traditional homelands onto -
A
Military Bases
B
Cities
C
Federal Reservations
D
Mexican own lands
7) Which of the following was not a reason for Westward Expansion?
A
Transcontinental Railroad
B
Discovery of Diamonds and Emeralds
C
New Beginning for former slaves
D
Homestead Act
8) What provided a link between the eastern and western states?
A
Airplanes
B
Homestead Act
C
Highway System
D
Transcontinental Railroad
9) Who was the chief of the Nez Perce?
A
Chief Joseph
B
Crazy Horse
C
Black Horse
D
Sitting Bull
10) What was the name given to African Americans who went west looking for a new beginning and n escape from violence in the South?
A
Reservationists
B
Exodusters
C
Black Settlers
D
Assimilators
11) Which event involved the massacre of hundreds of Lakota and marked the end of the Indian Wars?
A
Little Bighorn
B
Cloyd's Mountain
C
Wounded Knee
D
Flight of the Nez Perce
12) Which of the following was NOT an invention that helped settle the Great Plains?
A
Barbed Wire
B
Electrical Light
C
Windmill
D
Steel Plow
13) Which crop helped settle the Great Plains?
A
Squash
B
Barley
C
Wheat
D
Corn
14) Which battle involved Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse that showed the American Indians resistance to western expansion?
A
Cherokee War
B
Nez Perce
C
Little Bighorn
D
Wounded Knee
15) This invention helped settle the Great Plains because it could dig the dry, tough soil.
A
Garden Rake
B
Steel Plow
C
Sod Buster
D
Railroad
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