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5th grade Georgia Standards Western Expansion
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1
What was Westward Expansion?
The growth of the US territory toward the Atlantic Ocean.
The consistent decrease of territory toward the North Pole.
The consistent growth of the US territory toward the Pacific.
The consistent decrease of the US territory.
2
After the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty, the...
buffalo came close to being extinct.
U.S. broke the treaty after miners found gold on a reservation.
Native Americans broke the treaty to hunt buffalo on farms.
Native Americans learned how to farm.
3
Which two railroads made up the Transcontinental Railroad?
Union Pacific RR & Great Northern RR
Central Pacific RR & Union Pacific RR
Union Pacific RR & Union Atlantic RR
Great Northern RR & Central Pacific RR
4
What dangers did many Homesteaders face?
all of the above
bitterly cold winters
insects destroying crops
drought
5
Why did Boomtowns become Ghost Towns?
Because they ran out of gold and the miners left.
All of the food in town disappeared.
A lot of ghost started to come out
There were a lot of accidents involving workers.
6
Who won the Little Bighorn battle?
Native American indians
America
Slaves
The U.S Army
7
What led to the creation of boom towns in the west?
The discovery of gold.
The profits made from cattle drives.
The removal of Native Americans.
The construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
8
This word means to go "across the country."
horizontal
diagonal
transcontinental
continent
9
Boomers and Sooners were terms used in the:
Oklahoma Land Rush
California Gold Rush
Montana Silver Rush
The Rio Grande Land Rush
10
Sodbusters were ...
bullies that lived on the Great Plains.
Lakota's that defeated Colonel George Custer.
African American pioneers.
Great Plains farmers that had to dig through the thick sod.
11
Lieutenant Colonel Custer and all his men were killed at which battle?
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Badlands
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of Little Big Horn
12
In the Battle at the Little Bighorn River in 1876 ...
Chief Red Cloud was captured and murdered.
Sitting Bull scouted for the U.S. against his own people.
George Custer’s troops defeated the Indians.
Some 2,500 Indians annihilated a detachment of 210 soldiers.
13
African American settlers who moved to Kansas to be free.
Exodusters
Homesteaders
Settlers
Sodbusters
14
What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890 ?
The Americans won a battle over the British.
The French killed over 200 Americans.
More than 200 Native Americans were killed.
Over 200 slaves were killed.
15
How did the Dawes Act impact the lives of Native Americans?
It took away their food
Both red and blue.
It ended their traditional way of life and culture.
It took away their land and forced them to live on reservations.
16
Why did the Great Plains buffalo almost become extinct?
They froze in the winter of 1886.
Settlers ruined the habitat, hunters killed them, etc.
Texas longhorns took over their habitat.
Many buffalo died of thirst from the drought.
17
Sooners were settlers who "jumped the gun" in order to...
claim land in Texas.
claim land in New Mexico.
Claim land in California.
claim land in Oklahoma.
18
This act gave settlers 160 acres each.
Homestead Act
Settlers Act
Dawes Act
Mining Act
19
The Sun Dance and Ghost Dance ceremonies were important to the Native Americans because they...
attracted different animals for hunting.
praised, thanked, and requested help from the Great Spirit.
prevented settlers from invading their land.
made the weather ideal for hunting.
20
Were the miners during the gold rush richer than the merchants?
YES
I have no idea
NO
Yes, no, maybe so..
21
This group of workers did the most dangerous jobs, including working with dynamite.
Mexicans
Americans
African Americans
Chinese
22
All were problems faced by homesteaders EXCEPT
unpredictable weather
not enough timber (wood)
very tough sod soil
lack of land
23
How did the government help with the building of the Transcontinental RR?
Gave supplies to the companies.
Gave land grants and (subsidies) money to the RR companies.
Killed Buffalo to clear the land.
Sent people to work.
24
Congress passed the ____________ Act to make American Indians become farmers.
Dawes
Farm
Dawn
Davis
25
Who are Merchants?
People that were given free land out west.
African-Americans that moved to Kansas.
People that were a part of the government.
People who sell and buy things by opening up stores.
26
What are boomtowns?
Communities that grew suddenly wherever gold and silver were discovered.
Towns that were used for testing new explosives.
Towns cowboys grouped together and raised cattle.
Towns where great musicians were born.
27
What prompted the attack at Wounded Knee?
Native American sympathy for the Confederacy.
Participation in the Ghost Dance movement uniting Indian tribes.
Gold on land that the U.S. had guaranteed to Native Americans via treaty.
Retribution for earlier attacks on settlers.
28
What caused the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The soldiers found gold in the Black Hills.
The Native Americans refused to go to the reservation.
All of the above
The soldiers tried to prevent their ceremonies.
29
Which president made it a priority to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?
Andrew Johnson
James Buchanan
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
30
The Western Frontier is
the extreme limit of understanding or achievement in area.
a line or border separating two countries.
where cowboys lived.
the extreme limit of settled land beyond.
31
All of the following are uses of the buffalo
except
:
shelter
food
clothing
money
32
Before the white man came, how did the Native Americans hunt buffalo?
They drove them to run off a cliff.
They would perform dances to them.
Native Americans would shoot them.
They would light them on fire.
33
What was Manifest Destiny?
The God given right for America to move east.
The God given right for America to move westward.
The right of Native Americans to be free.
Mans destiny
34
Which animal was decimated by Westward expansion and the expansion of the Transcontinental RR?
Wild Horses
Wild Turkey
Antelope
Buffalo
35
A period of time were the summers were hot and there was little rainfall.
drought
pestisides
plague
destruction
36
What did the Dawes Act do?
It divided Indian reservations into individual allotments of 160 acres.
It gave women the right to vote.
It made the Washington Territory into Washington State.
It made Native Americans citizens of the U.S..
37
The Cheyenne were massacred here even after flying a white flag to surrender.
Wounded Knee
Sand Creek Massacre or Chivington Massacre
Badlands
Little Big Horn
38
The Native Americans that lived in tepees and hunted buffalo lived
in the Southwest Region.
on the Great Plains.
in the Eastern Woodland Region.
in the Pueblo Region
39
Land the government set aside for American Indians.
valley
reservation
homesteads
Great Plains
40
What were the benefits of building the Transcontinental RR?
Eastern landowners got wealthy.
The reconstruction of the South following the Civil War.
Businesses boomed in the West.
The Native American Indians had great lives.
41
Many Native Americans live on a RESERVATION.
Land set aside by the U.S. government
Round hut built over a deep hole
Group of families with one leader
Spanish word for village
42
What was the point of the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
To have Native American Indian groups leave the land.
To get more gold.
To free slaves living in the west on Native American Indian land.
To try and ensure peace between Native American Indians and government.
43
Which word means to change a group's culture and traditions so that it blends in with other's.
reservations
similation
assimilate
ceremony
44
Why did they name a town a ghost town?
All the miners had left the town.
People believed that the town was haunted.
There were lots of superstitions about the town.
All the miners that lived there were very pale.
45
This is where the two railroads met.
Sacramento, California
Promontory Point, Utah
Omaha, Nebraska
Promontory City, Nevada
46
The Transcontinental Railroad began ...
in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California.
in Promontory Point, Utah and Sacramento, California.
in Omaha, Nebraska and Sacramento, California
in Lincoln Nebraska and Los Angeles, California.
47
Many of them ran the business and shops in the boomtowns?
Miners
Women
African Americans
Chinese
48
What did Native Americans do on the Great Plains?
They welcomed settlers who knew how to farm.
They hunted buffalo.
They became wheat farmers.
They built the Transcontinental Railroad.
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What was an effect of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
The railroad provided job opportunities for Native American Indians.
It connected the East and West Coast together.
It helped start the Industrial Revolution.
It increased trade, travel, and communication.
