Westward Expansion Learning Check

Which of the following marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians?

• the Treaty of Fort Laramie

• the death of Sitting Bull

• the Sand Creek Massacre

• the massacre at Wounded Knee

Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?

• White settlers began wanting the land on the Plains.

• Native Americans refused to remain on the Plains.

• Native American populations decreased and needed less land.

• The Plains failed to meet the needs of Native American peoples.

Which of the following events occurred first?

• the Treaty of Fort Laramie

• the death of Sitting Bull

• the Sand Creek Massacre

• the massacre at Wounded Knee

Which of the following was not central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800s?

• the horse

• the buffalo

• the extended family

• land ownership

Who were the exodusters?

• European immigrants who settled on the Great Plains

• Plains Indians forced onto reservations in the 1800s

• former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains

• cowboys who worked long drives in the summer and odd jobs in the winter

Why did little of the free land offered by the Homestead Act end up being claimed by settlers?

• The land was too difficult to farm.

• Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.

• The land was taken by people seeking profits.

• The government put too many restrictions on its use.

Which of the following was most responsible for bringing an end to the era of the wide-open western frontier?

• sheep ranching

• barbed wire

• bonanza farming

• the railroad

Why did Plains farmers in the late 1800s tend to support

bimetallism?

• It would put more money in circulation.

• It would make the nation’s money supply safer.

• It would lower the prices of seed and farm machinery.

• It would allow them to profit from the mineral rights on their land.

Which of the following did not intensify the debts that Plains farmers

had during the late 1800s?

• inflation

• falling prices

• a tight money supply

• a shrinking supply of farm land

Which of the following marked the collapse of Populism?

• the Panic of 1893

• the founding of the Grange

• the “Cross of Gold” speech

• the election of William McKinley