West Test Review
• Homestead Act
• Cattle Drives
• Promontory Point
• Assimilation
a)forcing Native Americans to live like Anglos
b)cattle to railroads and markets in the East
c)free land for U.S. citizens—160 acres
d)Transcontinental Railroad met here
• Dawes Act
• Gold Rush
• Chinese
• Turner Thesis
a)forced assimilation on reservations (ex. schools)
b)built railroads but then “excluded” from U.S.
c)brought people to California and other states
d)America is defined by her Western experience
• Which of the following led to the closing of the west in 1890?
a)Dawes Act
b)Homestead Act
c)transcontinental railroad
d)all of these
• Why did the Dawes Act give land to individual American Indians as
opposed to tribes?
a)because tribes did not need land
b)because tribes could not afford land
c)to better promote assimilation into American culture
d)to raise more money for the U.S. government
• This led to colleges being built in the Western states:
a)Morrill Land Grant
b)Transcontinental Railroad
c)Homestead Act
d)Chinese Exclusion Act
• Who built the Transcontinental Railroad?
a)Chinese immigrants
b)Irish immigrants
c) “Exodusters” or ex-slaves
d)all of these
• American Indians defeated the American army led by General Custer
at:
a)Sand Creek
b)Little Big Horn
c)Wounded Knee
d)Fetterman Massacre
• The belief that the U.S. was fated to spread across the North
American continent is best described by:
a)assimilation
b)populism
c)manifest destiny
d)nativism (which means discrimination against “Non-Anglo
Americans” )
• Exoduster
• Soddie
• Manifest destiny
• Wounded Knee
a)house of mud on the Great Plains
b)American goal of reaching West coast
c)American army victory over the Sioux
d)African American homesteaders
• Economic activity in the West did NOT include:
a)mining
b)cattle and sheep ranching
c)homestead farms and bonanza farms
d)production of steel in factories
• How did the railroads end the long cattle drives?
a)railroads would not allow animals on trains
b)railroads were built closer to the ranches
c)cowboys were banned from the railhead towns
d)cattle trails were destroyed
• Farming on the Great Plains was very difficult and most homesteads
failed.
a)true
b)false
• Used barbed wire to protect crops:
a)cattlemen
c)Plains tribes
b)sheep ranchers
d)homesteading farmers
• Sooners and Boomers
• Sioux and Comanche
• Chinese and Irish
• Mexican Americans/Native Americans
a)Plains tribes
b)built railroad
c)Oklahoma settlers
d)first occupied West