Western Expansion Question Preview (ID: 60274)


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Which law directly impacted the lifestyle of American Indians by encouraging many white settlers to move west?
a) Settlement Act
b) Homestead Act
c) Indian Removal Act
d) Great Plains Law

Which of the following is NOT an adaptation that helped settlers on the Great Plains?
a) Sod Houses
b) Dry Farming
c) Beef Cattle Raising
d) Corn

All of the following are characteristics of the Great Plains EXCEPT:
a) Low Rainfall
b) Land eroded by wind and rain
c) Tall Mountains
d) Frequent Dust storms

Before the Civil War, the Great Plains was seen as a ______.
a) Treeless wasteland
b) Concrete Jungle
c) Rich Environment
d) Capitol City

Which battle involved Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse that showed the American Indians resistance to western expansion?
a) Wounded Knee
b) Nez Perce
c) Little Bighorn
d) Cherokee War

This invention helped settle the Great Plains because it could dig the dry, tough soil.
a) Steel Plow
b) Garden Rake
c) Railroad
d) Sod Buster

Which of the following was NOT an invention that helped settle the Great Plains?
a) Electrical Light
b) Steel Plow
c) Windmill
d) Barbed Wire

Which crop helped settle the Great Plains?
a) Wheat
b) Corn
c) Barley
d) Squash

Which event involved the massacre of hundreds of Lakota and marked the end of the Indian Wars?
a) Little Bighorn
b) Flight of the Nez Perce
c) Wounded Knee
d) Cloyd's Mountain

Who was the chief of the Nez Perce?
a) Sitting Bull
b) Crazy Horse
c) Black Horse
d) Chief Joseph

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) Exodusters
c) Assimilators
d) Reservationists

What provided a link between the eastern and western states?
a) Transcontinental Railroad
b) Airplanes
c) Highway System
d) Homestead Act

Which of the following was not a reason for Westward Expansion?
a) Homestead Act
b) Discovery of Diamonds and Emeralds
c) Transcontinental Railroad
d) New Beginning for former slaves

American Indians were forced to relocate from their traditional homelands onto -
a) Federal Reservations
b) Cities
c) Mexican own lands
d) Military Bases

Who led the U.S. troops at the Battle of Little Bighorn and lost his life along with hundreds of other troops?
a) Ulysses S. Grant
b) Robert E. Lee
c) George Armstrong Custer
d) Sitting Bull

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