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