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How did westward expansion affect the Native Americans living in the West?
Native Americans were forced on Indian reservations.
Pioneers scared Native Americans into the mountains.
The cowboys lassoed all the Native Americans.
Frontiersmen ran over Indian camps with their covered wagons
2
The first transcontinental railroad connected which two states?
Colorado to Texas
Kansas to Arizona
Nebraska to California
Iowa to Oregon
3
What document signed into action by President Lincoln encouraged westward expansion?
Western Migration Act
Homestead Act
Manifest Destiny of 1862
Move West Law
4
Immigrants came from what country to work as contract laborers in the American West?
Japan
Mexico
China
Great Britain
5
Westward expansion was accompanied by what religion which contributed to the statehood of Utah?
Judaism
Mormonism
Atheism
Christianity
6
What U.S. President loved the West and wrote a book titled "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail"?
Woodrow Wilson
William Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
7
What weapon became known as "the gun that won the west"?
Red Ryder BB Gun
Winchester Rifle
Smith & Wesson Revolver
Colt Peacemaker
8
What term was given to rapidly growing cities in the American West?
saloons
ghost towns
boomtowns
gunslingers
9
Besides Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows, what other famous show depicts life in the Old West?
Paint Your Wagon
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Annie Get Your Gun
Oklahoma!
10
Who of the following was NOT an important person in the American West during this time period?
Annie Oakley
Clyde Barrow
Jesse James
Buffalo Bill
11
What growing industry was primarily responsible for the formation of boomtowns?
the weapon industry
the farming industry
the mining industry
the cattle industry
12
What animal pictured was important to the American West?
an overweight goat
a yak
a hairy cow
a buffalo/bison