Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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How
did the telegraph help Americans communicate? a. | It helped people travel across the country
faster | b. | It sent electric signals over long distances
quickly | c. | It helped ranchers and farmers to
cooperate | d. | It gave peoplea new language to use | | |
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How
did the railroad companies finance the first transcontinental railroad? a. | They took a loan
from the Pacific Railway Act | b. | They shipped cattle from Texas at high
prices | c. | They charged an extra tax on railroad
tickets | d. | They collected money in advance from western
settlers | | |
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Why
did the Great Plains buffalo almost become extinct? a. | They froze in
the winter of 1886 | b. | Many buffalo died of thirst from the
drought | c. | Texas longhorns took over their habitat and ate all the
grass | d. | Settlers destroyed their habitat, their cattle brought deadly
diseases, and hunters killed them | | |
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Cattle ranchers sent their cattle to the North and East because a. | they could sell
their cattle there for more money | b. | there were no barbed wire fences | c. | people liked
Longhorn leather more than other kinds of leathers | d. | there were many
railroad stations there | | |
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Which
words best describe the Great Plains? a. | flat and dry | c. | wet and swampy | b. | rocky | d. | covered with
trees | | | | |
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_____________________ was the lieutenant colonel who led sodiers in the Battle of
Little Bighorn and was defeated by Indians. a. | George Custer | c. | George Washington | b. | George
Cleveland | d. | George
Jones | | | | |
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Who
were the two Indian chiefs that defeated Lieutenant Colonel George Custer in the Battle of Little
Bighorn? a. | Stands with a
fist and Kicking Bird | c. | Sitting Horse
and Crazy Bull | b. | Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull | d. | Looney Horse and Standing Bull | | | | |
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8.
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What
is a vaqueros? a. | Italian
Indian | c. | Canadian
Hispanic | b. | Mexican Indian | d. | Mexican Cowboy | | | | |
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9.
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This
offered 160 acres of land to people who were citizens or who wanted to become United States
citizens a. | Bill of
Rights | c. | The Homebound
Act | b. | The Townsend
Act | d. | The Homestead
Act | | | | |
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The
buffalo was very important to the Great Plains Indians because a. | they used its
meat and fur | b. | they ran fast | c. | buffalo carried
their things when they moved | d. | the government paid the Indians to hunt the
buffalo | | |
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Why
did the buffalo nearly become extinct? a. | because of the Dawes Act | b. | because of the
wars between the Plains Indians and U.S. soldiers | c. | because the
Plains Indians hunted them | d. | because of new railroads, road, and
settlements | | |
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What
was the name given to African-American homesteaders? a. | Sodbusters | c. | Europeans | b. | Easterners | d. | Exodusters | | | | |
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How
could western farmers use the railroad to make money? a. | Farmers ould
make more things in factories | b. | Farmers used new machnery to grow more
grain | c. | Farmers could ship cattle and wheat to the
east | d. | Stores in the
eastern states sold more things | | |
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Why
was the telegraph useful? a. | People could read old
newspapers | c. | People could
call each other | b. | People could send messages
quickly | d. | People could
travel long distances | | | | |
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Settlers faced
many problems on the Great Plains. Their first problem was how to build houses. Wood was
scarce, so settlers made homes from sod. The settlers also had trouble growing crops in a dry
climate. So, they dug deep wells and pumped water by hand. Wheat grew poorly on the Great
Plains, so they tried seeds that came from Eastern Europe.
What were two problems that the Great
Plain a. | building houses
and growing crops | c. | killing buffalo
and riding horses | b. | riding the railroad and making
fences | d. | shooting guns
and making fires | | | | |
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Matching
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a. | transcontinental | f. | homestead | b. | barbed wire | g. | reservation | c. | prejudice | h. | exodusters | d. | drought | i. | sodbuster | e. | demand | j. | supply | | | | |
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16.
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unfair, negative opinion that can lead to unjust treatment
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17.
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a
settler’s home and land
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18.
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a
railroad that crosses a continent
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19.
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Great
Plains farmers that had to break through thick soil
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20.
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African American settlers
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21.
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A
long period of time with little or no rain
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22.
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The
amount of something that people want to buy at certain prices
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23.
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The
amount of something that people want to sell at certain prices
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24.
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Twisted wire with sharp barb, or point, every few inches
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25.
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Land
that is set aside for American Indians
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