Westward Expansion Test
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- Q1What were some of the problems that settlers encountered on the mining frontier?The Chinese were getting rich from Gold miningThe Homestead Act encouraged crimeSooners were killing vigilantespollution in streams, cutting down of forests, few ever got rich30s
- Q2What did some towns in the west do to control lawlessness and disorder?Organized vigilantesNone of the abovePass the 13th amendmentMove criminals onto reservations30s
- Q3What was the most significant economic impact of the transcontinental railroads during the late 1800s?eliminating overseas trade with Europerapid rebuilding of the South after the Civil Warexpanding trade nationwidedecreasing the influence of big business30s
- Q4Cowhands on cattle drives used skillsthat destroyed the buffalo herds.learned from Mexican vaqueros.that made the work more difficult.brought over by Irish immigrants.30s
- Q5Railroad companies hired immigrants to build the transcontinental railroad becauseimmigrants worked for low pay.they prefered English speaking workersthe government would not let them use United States citizens.many immigrants had experience doing railroad work.30s
- Q6Settlers and Plains Indians came into conflict mostly becauseIndians claimed more land than they could use.Indians had all of the good farmlandsettlers ignored treaties protecting Indian lands.chiefs like Sitting Bull had provoked the military into fighting them30s
- Q7When gold was discovered in at Pikes Peak, Colorado in 1848 what were Native Americans forced to do?nothing the U.S. government honored the Fort Laramie Treatythey were forced onto reservations in the easthunt buffaloNative Americans had to sign a new treaty giving up their land30s
- Q8The belief that the United States had a right to expand across the continent to the Pacific…homestead actmanifest destinysubsidycow towns30s
- Q9On a cattle drive, cowhands might have to...stop off in mining towns along the way.load cattle onto the railroad cars.all of the abovework alongside vaqueros in Mexico.30s
- Q10The government encouraged settlers to move onto the Plains by...outlawing buffalo hunts.building the Cattle Kingdompassing the Homestead Actbuilding cow towns30s
- Q11Which group of immigrants worked on the railroad and faced discrimination?Sooners and HomesteadersCowhands and SharecroppersItalians, Syrians, and MexicansChinese and Mexicans30s
- Q12How did Congress help railroad companies?by giving them a subsidyby passing the Homestead Actby letting farmers farm land for 5 yearsby putting up barbed wire fences30s
- Q13What action of Plains farmers helped end the Cattle Kingdom?they hunted buffalothey quickly passed into areas farther westthey gave up farmingthey put up barbed wire fences30s
- Q14Why did boomtowns become ghost towns?Miners left when they could not find gold, businesses closedfarmers put up barbed wire fencesthe battle of Little Big Horn scared off settlersNative Americans were successful as farmers30s
- Q15Which of the following does not describe life as a cowboy?worked for owners of large ranchesearned $1 a daybuilt rail lineslearned skills from vaqueros30s