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What is the most famous and last major battle between Native Americans and the US Army?
a) Battle of Little Bighorn
b) Wounded Knee Massacre
c) Dakota War
d) Battle of Sand Creek

What were American Indians promised if they agreed to move onto reservations?
a) millions of dollars
b) ownership of the Black Hills and other sacred places forever
c) food, farm tools, schools
d) herds of buffalo to hunt

What did vigilantes do in western towns?
a) formed because of the lack of law and order
b) handed out quick justice
c) took the law into their own hands
d) all of these

Fast growing settlements that sprung up around mines were known as:
a) ghosttowns
b) boomtowns
c) tenements
d) slums

Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads meet to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?
a) Utah
b) Nebraska
c) Minnesota
d) Kansas

This group of people herded cattle to railroad towns (cow towns).
a) Homesteaders
b) Railroad Workers
c) Miners
d) Cowboys

What part of the buffalo were eastern hunters most interested in getting?
a) meat
b) horns
c) hides
d) bones

What natural resources needed to build western towns was sometimes known as green gold?
a) trees
b) sod
c) oil
d) copper

Which of the following was NOT a challenge faced by homesteaders on the Great Plains?
a) Lack of rainfall
b) Tornadoes
c) Overcrowded tenements
d) Locusts

Thousands of workers from this country worked to build the transcontinental railroad.
a) Mexico
b) China
c) Germany
d) Italy

What law gave land away to settlers in the West?
a) Pacific Railway Act
b) Dawes Act
c) Homestead Act
d) Fugitive Slave Act

What project was completed on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah?
a) The Statue of Liberty
b) Erie Canal
c) Hoover Dam
d) The transcontinental railroad

Before the completion of the transcontinental railroad, how long did it take to cross the American continent?
a) 6 months
b) 6 days
c) 6 years
d) 6 hours

How did mining changed the West?
a) Established law and order
b) Established new settlements
c) Ended conflicts with Native Americans
d) Improved the environment

What did the U.S. government give to railroad companies to get them to take on the transcontinental railroad project?
a) free land
b) money for workers' wages
c) steel rails
d) food

What caused the Plains Indian people to finally move onto reservations?
a) opportunities to learn to read and write
b) promises of cash
c) opportunity to own farmland
d) near extinction of the buffalo

Which of the following best describes the long drive?
a) the trail followed by buffalo hunters
b) the path leading American Indians to reservation
c) the movement of cattle to railroad lines
d) the action of nailing spikes into railroad tracks

Which of the following was often used to build homes on the Great Plains?
a) wood
b) sod
c) adobe
d) ice and snow

What often happened after gold deposits ran out near boomtowns?
a) the boomtown became a ghost town
b) crime increased
c) a rush of settlers moved to town
d) the environment healed itself

This invention threatened the cowboys' way of life because it prevented them from driving cattle across the open range.
a) railroad tracks
b) telegraph lines
c) barbed wire
d) electrical power station

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