Westward Expansion Test Review

Which innovation had the GREATEST impact on westward migration immediately after the American Civil War?

• telephone

• electricity

• steam-powered boats

• transcontinental railroad

In 1882, Congress passed an "exclusion act" which prevented the immigration of workers from what country for 10 years?

• China

• Japan

• Ireland

• United States

Which of these took place in Promontory, Utah, in 1869?

• the largest discovery of silver in American history

• the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

• a massacre of Cheyenne Indians

• a massacre of Sioux Indians

The Sioux and Sitting Bull led the attack on General George Armstrong Custer's cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Why did the Sioux take this course of action?

• General Custer wanted Congress to outlaw the Sioux's ritual Ghost Dance.

• The Transcontinental Railroad was moving through the area the Sioux inhabited.

• The U.S. Army was threatening to take over the Sioux's gold mines, which were key to the Native American economy.

• The U.S. Government had broken promises to let the Sioux remain in the Black Hills and was attempting to force them from those lands.

Judging from the map, which area was likely to see the GREATEST percentage increase in urban population due to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which legislation, passed in 1887, was designed to break up large Native American reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans?

• The Dawes Act

• The Hargrove Act

• The Miller Act

• The Nes Pierce Act

Which invention had the effect of ending the era of the "long drives" of the late 19th century?

• barbed wire

• paved roads

• the cotton gin

• the refrigerated box car

What group of immigrants arrived in large numbers on the U.S. west coast for the primary purpose of working on the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century?

• Chinese

• Japanese

• Irish

• Italian

Chief Sitting Bull led Sioux warriors in what conflict in June of 1876?

• the Fetterman Massacre

• the Sand Creek Massacre

• the Battle of Wounded Knee

• the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Which number on the map represents the area in which the Nez Perce people are found?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4