1. Technological advances that aided
in the settlement of the Great
Plains include all of the following
EXCEPT:
a. Barbed wire
b. Steel plow
c. Electric light bulb
2. Which invention or technology
made it possible to grow wheat on
the Great Plains?
a. Barbed wire
b. Dry farming
c. Windmills
d. Railroads
3. Which crop grew best on the
Great Plains?
a. Corn
b. Cotton
c. Soybeans
d. Wheat
4. Where on the Great Plains was
there the most cattle ranching?
a. Texas
b. The Dakotas
c. Colorado
d. Utah
5. Which of the following was NOT
one of the physical features of the
Great Plains that made them hard
to farm?
a. Frequent dust storms
b. Scanty rainfall
c. Cool temperatures in summer
d. Land erosion
6. Wheat farming on the Great
Plains:
a. Was easy due to a steady supply of rain
b. Allowed Congress to pass legislation
forbidding farming in the plains states
c. Forced farmers to plant wheat differently
d. Did not help any farmers
1. Which of the following best
describes why people went west?
a. Fewer opportunities for land ownership
b. Possibility of wealth created by the
discovery of silver
c. Voting privileges for former slaves
d. Opportunities for all
2. What is the main reason people
settled in the Great Plains?
a. The 19th Amendment
b. Homestead Act
c. Women’s Suffrage
d. California gold rush
3. Where on the Great Plains was
there the most cattle ranching?
a. Eastern Texas
b. The eastern half of the Dakotas
c. Western Colorado
d. Utah
4. One of the greatest impacts of
cattle drives was…
a. Stampedes
b. Beef being eaten in the cities
c. The establishment of cow towns in the
Midwest
d. Wild animals
5. A major benefit of the
Transcontinental Railroad was…
a. Fewer buffalo were left on the Plains
b. Supplies and mail moved more quickly
and cheaply
c. Fewer states entered the Union
d. Congress gave loans to railroad
companies
6. Which group did NOT benefit from
westward expansion?
a. Cowboys
b. African-Americans
c. Native Americans
d. Miners
7. Cattle ranching on the Great
Plains experienced a period of
growth because…
a. The expansion of railroads
b. Government money
c. Dry farming
d. Decrease in annual rainfall
8. Boom towns were the result of…
a. People supporting the needs of miners
b. The Homestead Act
c. The creation of Indian reservations
d. Fighting between Indians and settlers
9. The Transcontinental Continental
Railroad was built to…
a. Link the northern and southern states
b. Link the eastern and western states
c. Discourage settlers from moving west
d. Employ thousands of immigrants
10. Former slaves called themselves
Exodusters because…
a. They liked the name
b. They were on a journey to freedom
c. They returned to slavery
d. They planted exobeans
1.
The United States government’s main
reason for putting the Indians on
reservations can be best characterized
as…
a. Freeing up more land for the settlers to
farm on
b. Providing more tax money for the
economy
c. Providing an increase in personal
liberties
d. Allowing the Indians an opportunity to
open stores
2. “I am tired of fighting…From
where the sun now stands, I will
fight no more.” This statement was
made by…
a. Chief Powhatan
b. Crazy Horse
c. Chief Joseph
d. Sitting Bull
3. The Native Americans were forced
to move from their homes to
certain government owned lands.
What was the name given to these
lands?
a. Preservation
b. Tribal nation
c. Conservation
d. Reservation
4. What was the name of the battle
where Colonel Custer led his
soldiers against the Lakota tribe?
a. Big Littlehorn
b. Sioux Stance
c. Little Bighorn
d. Custer’s Crusade
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