History mid-term exams
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| How did people view the west before 1877? | They saw it as a "treeless wasteland" and not worth selling
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| Five reasons people went west | New technologies
Homestead Act
Possibility of wealth
New beginnings for slaves
Adventure!
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| The Homestead Act gave____acres away free as long as the person agreed to work on it for___years | The Homestead Act gave 160 acres away free as long as the person agreed to work on it for 5 years
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| Transcontinental Railroad | Helped people move west faster and safer than wagons did
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| Barbed wire | Used for fences and to make house of sod
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| Sod houses | Houses made out of sod(dried dirt held together by roots) in replace of wood for the houses
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| Steel plows | Used to break up hard dirt for farming
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| Windmills | used to dig deep wells for water
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| Dry Farming | Farmers would plant seeds deep to get at the moist soil underneath
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| Long Drives | Cowherds took the cattle up north to railroad towns which were long drives
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| Geronimo | Famous for; attacking white settlers in the southeast
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| Sitting Bull | Led victory over US army at Little Big Horn
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| Chief Joseph | Tried to lead his people (Nez Perce) to freedom in Canada
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| When the US government wanted to take Indian land, they forced Native Americans onto____ | Reservations
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| Native Americans were not allowed to become citizens until_____ | 1924
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| Which act tried to make Indians adopt American culture | Dawnes Act
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| True or False: The Dawes Act was successful because Native Americans wanted to give up their traditional way of life just to survive | False
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