Western Expansion Practice Test

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1 point

Which new invnetion made life for farmer's easier?

reaper

barbed wire

steel plow

all of these were helpful to the Plains Farmers

1 point

Which candidate was famous for for his "Cross of Gold" speech?

William Sherman

George Custer

Theodore Roosevelt

William Jennings Bryan

1 point

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

Indian Removal Act

Dawes Act

massacre at Wounded Knee

death of Sitting Bull

1 point

What was the name of the plan that sought to "Americanize" Native Americans?

Dawes Act

assimilation

Morrill Land Grant Act

1 point

Manifest Destiny....

the law that "Americanized " Indians.

was the belief that America would spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

the name of the celebration after the completion of the transcontinental railroads.

1 point

Which act gave 160 acres of land free to the head of any household?

Homestead Act

Dawes Act

Morrill Act

1 point

Which one of these is not a main industry of the West?

farming

cattle

manufacturing

mining

1 point

Who were the exodusters?

European immigrants who settled on the Plains

cowboys who worked on cattle drives

former slaves from the South who settled on the Plains

1 point

Which of the following was not central to the life and culture of the Plains Indian

land ownership

family

the horse

the buffalo

10.

1 point

Farmers supported which form of currency?

coinage

bimetallism

gold standard

11.

1 point

What brought an end to the frontier?

the decimation of the buffalo

railroads

barbed wire

Wounded Knee

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