QUIZ 3 - The American West
Chapter Three of America Unbound on "The American West"


1: Which of the following native peoples did not live on the Great Plains before 1830?
A Cherokee
B Cheyenne
C Apache
D Pawnee

2: Which of the following is an example of a Native American victory?
A Red River War
B Sand Creek Massacre
C Wounded Knee Massacre
D Little Big Horn

3: Large tracts of public land in the West were sold to fund state universities as a provision of the:
A Land Ordinance Act.
B Morrill Land Grant Act.
C Homestead Act.
D Desert Land Act.

4: As demand in the East increased and various technologies improved, Western farmers increasingly turned to the wide-scale production of:
A wheat.
B corn.
C hogs.
D timber.

5: Which of the following incentives did the federal government provide to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads to build a route from Omaha to Sacramento?
A specific authorization through the Pacific Railway Act
B sizable federal loans
C extensive land grants
D all of the above

6: Which of the following did not contribute to the era of cowboys and cattle drives?
A the growth of western cities
B activist agitation by farmers
C increased use of barbed wire
D the growth of railroads

7: The ____________ Act sought to end the reservation system for Native Americans by dividing their communally held land into individual allotments.

8: Wovoka urged Native Americans to perform the ceremonial rite of the __________ to hasten the arrival of a "deliverer" who would make white people disappear from the Plains.

9: The __________ Act (1902) funded the construction of Boulder Dam, among other projects, through the federal Bureau of Reclamation.

Question 10: During most of the 19th century, most of the West remained organized as ___________, which were unable to gain statehood because of partisan wrangling in Congress.