1. Test 2a-c Review
Ms. Newell

2. Following the Civil War, settlers began to move west.
True/False
Following the Civil War, settlers began to move west.

3. True/False
The act passed in 1862 providing free land to settlers was called the Free Land Act.

4. True/False
Prospectors attracted by gold strikes in Colorado and Nevada found other metals as well.

5. True/False
Texas ranchers had plenty of cattle, but the best markets were in the North and the East.

6. True/False
Texas ranchers organized cattle drives to herd cattle from their ranches to the butchers in the East.

7. How did railroads change how people measured time?

8. Why were the railroads so important to the boomtowns?

9. What factors attracted settlers to the Plains?

10. 2. competed with Union Pacific
Match all 3
Central Pacific
sodbusters
subsidies
1. Government grants
2. competed with Union Pacific
3. Plains farmers

11. What was one approach of the sodbusters?
A. dry farming
B. lode farming
wet farming
ore farming

12. A symbol that marks ownership burned into the hide of cattle is called
A. homestead. B. brand.
C. dry farming. D. sodbuster.

13. What is it called when thousands of cattle run in panic?
A. dry farming
B. a branding
C. homesteading
D. a stampede

14. Who customarily wore wide-brimmed hats, chaps, and lariats?
A. dry farmers
B. vaqueros
C.sodbusters
D. homesteaders

15. Two noncontiguous states are -
A North and South Dakota
B Florida and Alaska
C Alaska and Hawaii
D Puerto Rico and Guam

16. What region are the stars in?
A Rocky Mountains
B Midwest
C Pacific
D Southwest

17. What region are the stars in?
A Noncontiguous B Rocky Mountain
C Midwest D Pacific

18. What area is the star in? A Noncontiguous B Midwest
C Rocky Mountain D Pacific

19. Santa Fe and San Antonio are located in which United States region?
A Pacific
B Southeast
C Southwest
D Rocky Mountain

20. Which of the following states is NOT located in the Midwest region of the United States?
A Indiana B Pennsylvania
C Ohio D Michigan

21. Why did manufacturing areas develop near cities in the Northeast and Midwest?
A To be near the consumers
B To be near natural resources
C Because there were no cities in the West
D Because southern farmers were self-sufficient

22. Which area had the most textile manufacturing in the time period after Reconstruction?
A mid-Atlantic
B Midwest
C New England
D Southwest

23. What was the most important economic benefit of the railroads to the cattle industry?
A They made it possible for ranchers to visit cities.
B They brought supplies to the settlers.
C They allowed settlers to move west faster than on horseback.
D They transported cattle to market easily.

24. All three major cattle trails began in what state?
A Kansas B Texas
C Illinois D California

25. Why do the three cattle trails on the map run from south to north?
A The trails allowed cowboys to get their cattle to the railroads.
B The trails went north to avoid Indian lands.
C It was easier to herd cattle downhill.
D Cowboys herded the cattle along major rivers.

26. Automobile manufacturing developed in which major city -
A Pittsburgh
B Detroit
C Chicago
D New York City

27. What problem faced by farmers was solved by the steel plow?
A The thick grass and sod of the plains was difficult to break up.
B Cattle on the open range often damaged or destroyed crops.
C Crops were often damaged by prairie fires and plagues of insects.
D Lack of rainfall made growing crops difficult.

28. What physical feature of the Great Plains made the land ideal for raising cattle?
A Abundant trees
B Large rivers
C Flat open prairie
D Rolling hills

29. What form of shelter did settlers use because of the scarcity of trees on the Great Plains?
A Grass hut
B Teepee
C Sod house
D Log cabin

30. Western settlers no longer saw the Great Plains as a "treeless wasteland" due to
A frequent rainfall
B. land erosion
C new inventions
D climate changes

31. The land on the Great Plains can best be described as -
A forested hills running north and south
B marsh and swamp drained by westward flowing rivers
C flat lands rising gradually from east to west
D tall mountains and narrow valleys

32. A flat lands that rise gradually from east to west
The Great Plains can be
described as all of the following
EXCEPT
A flat lands that rise gradually from east to west
B rolling hills & abundant trees
C land eroded by wind & water
D an area that has frequent dust storms

33. How did the invention of barbed wire and the steel plow influence westward movement?
A It allowed people to move to more challenging environments.
B It improved railroad construction.
C It improved tobacco farming in Virginia.
D It allowed farmers to plant crops in the Rocky Mountain region

34. How did the dry climate of the West influence farmers?
A American Indians (First Americans) worked with western farmers to teach them new farming methods.
B Farmers were forced to leave the West and return East.
C Special fertilizers were used to make farming in the dry climate possible.
D New techniques such as dry farming and windmills were used to make farming possible.

35. Due to low rainfall on the Great Plains, farmers adapted by using which of the following techniques?
A Barbed wire
B Steel plow
C Wet farming
D Dry farming

36. Before the invention of the steel plow and barbed wire, most Americans saw the Great Plains as
A a treeless wasteland
B an American Indian reservation
C the best place to settle
D the source of most natural resources

37. As an adaptation to life on the Great Plains, settlers lived in
A wigwams
B sod homes
C brick homes
D log homes

38. The steel plow is to farming as barbed wire is to
A manufacturing
B mining
C ranching
D transportation