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Which of the following is NOT an exaggeration and was an actual occurrence in the Wild West in the mid to late 1800s?
a) Shootouts with American Indians
b) Cowboy Gunslingers
c) Cattle Drives
d) A lawless frontier

What ended the cattle drives?
a) Hostile tribes
b) Apathetic migrants
c) The railroads
d) The invention of barbed wire

What are the two reasons for human migration?
a) Jobs and Freedom
b) Jobs and Weather
c) Freedom and Racism
d) Weather and Racism

Why did Americans move to California in 1848?
a) More Religious Freedom in California
b) Gold was discovered
c) Low paying jobs
d) Escape the laws of the United States

What group of people lost the most amount of land in the US?
a) Spanish
b) Mexicans
c) American Indians
d) Slaves

Which of the following does NOT explain why the Plains Indians changed their way of life and stopped being farmers?
a) Spanish exploration of North America
b) Massive drought
c) Introduction of Guns
d) Introduction of Horses

What invention made unwanted land in the west arable, and led to the removal of Indians from the west?
a) The spinning jenny
b) The telegram
c) The cotton gin
d) The steel plow

What is the name for the land set aside for the American Indians?
a) Reservation
b) Camp
c) Colony
d) Plantation

Changing from an original culture to another more widely accepted culture is -
a) Reservation
b) Colonization
c) Adaptation
d) Assimilation

Which best describes the way the American government treated the American Indians?
a) Fairly
b) Honestly
c) Unfairly
d) Reverently

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