American West

1. Who created the Cow Town of Abeline?

• Charles Goodnight
• john Illif
• Oliver Loving
• Joe McCoy

What common trait was shared by different Indian cultures?

• They are preferred to live on reservations.
• They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.
• They all viewed nature as sacred.
• They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.

Which of the following factors contributed to the demise of the open-range system?

• The use of sod for houses
• The invention of barbed wire
• The development of railroads
• The disappearance of big mining companies

What policy did the government promote to help Native Americans?

• Vigilantism
• Progressvism
• The referendum
• Assimilation 

What was the last armed conflict to take place between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army?

• The Battle of Tippecanoe
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Wounded Knee
• The Battle of Little Big Horn

Which of the following acts of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?

• the Homestead Act
• the Morrill Land Grant Act
• the Indian Removal Act
• the Dawes Act

During the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad started in California and built the railroad east to Promontory Point, Utah, where it was connected with the railroad built from the east by the Union Pacific Railroad. What was the ethnicity of the majority of the workers who built the Central Pacific Railroad?

• Chinese
• Mexican
• French
• German

Which of the following events was a conflict between Homesteaders and Cattlemen?

• Johnson County War
• Red Clouds War
• Mormon war
• Great Sioux war

When did the Johnson county war take place?

• 1890
• 1891
• 1892
• 1893

Which of these was not a Sioux leader

• Bigfoot
• Sitting Bull
• Red Cloud
• Black Crow