US History II Test 1 Review

What invention, by blacksmith John Deere, allowed settlers to farm in the challenging environment of the West?

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How did westward expansion and land policies impact indigenous people?

• The U.S. government honored treaties that granted tribes the rights to their ancestral lands.

• Indigenous people and settlers lived together peacefully for many years.

• Conflicts often resulted in Indigenous people being forced off their lands.

• Tribes were the only people given the right to hunt buffalo across the Great Plains.

Many Black Americans moved west in hopes of ...

• a reunion with family members

• opportunities for equality

• employment in factories

• jobs working on the railroad

What invention was used by settlers to keep livestock on their property and to mark property lines?

• Windmills

• Wooden fences

• Electric fences

• Barbed wire

Which of the following is NOT one of the adaptations that helped settlers in the West?

• building sod houses

• using dry farming

• building wooden houses

• raising cattle

What battle involved the killing of hundreds of Lakota people and also marked the end of the "Indian Wars"?

• Massacre at Wounded Knee

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Ghost Dance Massacre

• Sand Creek Massacre

Homelands of Indigenous people were reduced because of ...

• the number of growing factories in the West

• broken treaties with the U.S. government

• an increased buffalo population

• continued dust storms in the dry Midwest climate

Which phrase is an effect of U.S. treaties with Indigenous nations?

• Expanded slavery to new territories

• Relocated Indigenous people to less fertile land

• Increased population of Indigenous people east of the Mississippi

Which phrase is an effect of U.S. treaties with Indigenous nations?

• Expanded slavery to new territories

• Increased populations of Indigenous people east of the Mississippi

• Resulted in the deaths of thousands of Indigenous people

Which group of people did the U.S. government assign to protect settlers, carry the mail, and guard the railroads?

• Exodusters

• Irish immigrants

• Buffalo soldiers

• Chinese immigrants