Westward Expansion Review

Which invention above changed the landscape of the West?

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Many former enslaved African Americans moved west because of a desire for

• a reunion with family members

• a new beginning

• employment in factories

• military ranking

Select the three adaptations to life in the West:

• Sod houses

• Dry farming

• Wooden houses

• Beef cattle

American Indian homelands were reduced because of...

• the number of growing factories

• broken treaties with the U.S. government

• increases in the buffalo population

• continued battles between different American Indian tribes

Which leader of the Nez Perce from their traditional homelands>

• Sitting Bull

• Chief Joseph

• Geronimo

• Squanto

Why did American Indians fight against U.S. troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• To show their opposition to westward expansion

• To gain representation in congress

• To force the U.S. government into selling their homelands

• To keep segregation and "Jim Crow" laws from spreading west

Because of new technologies, people saw the Great Plains not as "treeless" wasteland but as...

• a vast area to be settled

• land for American Indian reservations

• an area to relocate all new immigrants

• the site for a new national park

Before the Battle of Little Bighorn, who predicted an American Indian victory?

• Geronimo

• Chief Joseph

• General Custer

• Sitting Bull

What does Not describe the physical features or climate of the Great Plains?

• Continuous thunderstorms

• Low rainfall

• Land eroded by water

• Land eroded by wind

The steel plow was a successful invention for the Great Plains because it...

• had a dull blade, making it east to move the dust from the surface

• was sharp and could dig in the dry, tough soil

• allowed farmers to grow more wheat with fewer workers

• easily removed the small, sticky seeds from cotton