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- 1. Multiple Choice
Allowed farmers to break up dry tough soil of the Great Plains.
sod house
windmill
steel plow
barbed wire
- 2. Multiple Choice
Allowed farmers to keep cattle from nearby ranches off their fields and away from their crops.
steel plow
barbed wire
windmill
sod house
- 3. Multiple Choice
These were used throughout the Great Plains to pump water from the ground and to provide power.
windmills
sod house
steel plow
barbed wire
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of these was NOT an adaptation that contributed to the settlement of the west?
dry farming
cattle ranching
sharecropping
wheat farming
- 5. Multiple Choice
Leader of the Nez Perce who fled to Canada to avoid life on a reservation before being captured.
“I will fight no more forever.”
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT part of the physical environment of the Great Plains?
land eroded by wind and water
forests
low rainfall
frequent dust storms
- 7. Multiple Choice
The Homestead Act was written to encourage people to
move to eastern cities
mine and raise cattle in the west
settle and farm western lands
avoid border conflicts with Mexico
- 8. Multiple Choice
Many farmers built their homes from sod. What answer BEST describes sod?
branches and clay
iron and wood
grass and mud
curried buffalo hide
- 9. Multiple Choice
What was the MAIN reason the government wanted Native Americans on reservations
to keep them from starving
to take their land
to preserve the remaining buffalo
to teach them new skills
- 10. Multiple Choice
the battle that marked the defeat of General Custer and the U.S. Army
Little Big Horn
Sand Creek
Wounded Knee
Horseshoe Bend
- 11. Multiple Choice
The killing of 200 men, women, and children that ended armed resistance in the west
Wounded Knee Massacre
Battle of Little Big Horn
Battle of the Sioux
Sand Creek Massacre
- 12. Multiple Choice
Apache leader who refused to go to live on a reservation, attacked settlers in Arizona and New Mexico and successfully evaded capture for 10 years
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes the landscape of the Great Plains
relatively flat land and covered by prairie grasses
relatively flat land and covered by dense forest
mountainous land with many canyons
mountainous land with little vegetation
- 14. Multiple Choice
Leader of the Sioux indians
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
- 15. Multiple Choice
The hope of getting rich in the California Gold Rush motivated people to head out west.
True
False
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