Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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During and after the Civil War, many settlers began moving out west in search
of
a. | a worse life | c. | money | b. | an easy life | d. | a better life |
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As compared to earlier settlement, the journey westward was made less difficult
with the
a. | railroad | c. | interstate highway | b. | automobile | d. | rest areas |
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Two immigrant groups that were most responsible for the labor to build the
transcontinental railroad were the
a. | Japanese & Irish | c. | Chinese & Irish | b. | African Americans &
Chinese | d. | Germans &
Italians |
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The transcontinental railroad did which of the following?
a. | contributed to the destruction of the buffalo herds | c. | developed time zones in the United
States | b. | moved goods and people quickly across the country | d. | all of these |
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The Homestead Act offered settlers how many acres of free land in exchange for
farming the land for 5 years?
a. | 160 | c. | 640 | b. | 320 | d. | it did not offer free
land |
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What resulted in conflict between white settlers and Native Americans?
a. | the role of religion | c. | how land should be owned and used | b. | how to educate the
young for adulthood | d. | all of
these |
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Native Americans of the Great Plains depended on what to survive?
a. | the railroad | c. | settlers | b. | buffalo | d. | gold |
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Which was a long-term effect of building the railroad across the West?
a. | Most immigrants from Europe settled in California. | c. | Conflicts between settlers &
Native Americans decreased. | b. | The population of the West increased
significantly. | d. | Abilene,
Kansas became a major western city. |
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What mostly threatened the lifestyle of Native Americans of the Great Plains and
their dependence on buffalo to survive?
a. | railroads | c. | climate change | b. | disease | d. | cattle drives |
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American hunters were hired to slaughter the buffalo to...
a. | take away the Native American's livelihood | c. | feed railroad crews & prevent
herds from blocking the trains | b. | create conflict between settlers & Native
Americans | d. | sell to wealthy
people back east |
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Native Americans were eventually forced onto areas of land called...
a. | stockades | c. | territories | b. | concentration camps | d. | reservations |
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What U.S. government policy tried to force Native Americans to adopt white
ways?
a. | reservation | c. | assimilation | b. | Homestead Act | d. | reconciliation |
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A battle that was the last armed conflict between the U.S. government and Native
Americans?
a. | Wounded Knee | c. | Battle of the Little Big Horn | b. | Dakota
Uprising | d. | Sand Creek
Massacre |
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What parts of the buffalo did Native Americans use?
a. | hide & meat | c. | hide, meat, & bones | b. | almost every
part | d. | everything but the
hoofs and horns |
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What two railroad companies were given land grants to build a transcontinental
railroad?
a. | Burlington Northern & Union Pacific | c. | Union Pacific & Central
Pacific | b. | Santa Fe Railroad & Central Pacific | d. | Kansas City Southern &
CSX |
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