Chapter 7 Into the West

Mr. Abbott

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  1. People who roam from place to place

    2. Your answer:
    Travelers
    Nomadic
    Resevationists
    Long Drive

  2. A trip from Texas to Kansas

    3. Your answer:
    Nomadic
    Maverick
    Comodity
    Long Drive

  3. A group of people that kept the order in the "wild west"

    4. Your answer:
    Vigilance Commitee
    Vaudville
    Meridian
    Comodity

  4. An economic good

    5. Your answer:
    Maverick
    Vaudville
    Meridian
    Comodity


  5. The picture above is of what memerable moment.

    6. Your answer:
    The introcudtion of the steam engine
    The begining of the Central Pacific
    The joining of the Transcontinetal Railroad at Promontory Point
    The Great Northern Railroad

  6. Live variety shows

    7. Your answer:
    rodeo
    Cattle Kingdom
    Vaudville
    Vigilance Committe

  7. A hollywood version of the "old west"

    8. Your answer:
    Mavericks
    Vaudville
    Long Drive
    Westerns

  8. which of the following was not one of the lies told by the railroad to encourge people to move the west

    9. Your answer:
    Wheather so good it cures everything
    Every woman will find a husband
    Rain Follows the plow
    Soil so furtile it grow crops itself

  9. An unbranded cattle

    10. Your answer:
    Comodity
    Long Horn
    Nomadic
    Maverick

  10. A line of Longitude

    11. Your answer:
    Long Drive
    Maverick
    Long lines
    Meridian

  11. Site of the last official battle between the Native americans and the U.S. military

    12. Your answer:
    Wounded Knee
    Little Big Horn
    Dawes Act
    Croocked River

  12. Gave land and citizenship to Native Americans after 25 years

    13. Your answer:
    Homestead Act
    Dawes Act
    Vigilance comitties
    None of these choices

  13. Homestead act required the land owner to work the land and or live on the land for

    14. Your answer:
    25 years
    10 years
    15 years
    5 years

  14. Which ethnic group worked on the Central Pacfic Railroad moving toward the east?

    15. Your answer:
    Irish
    All three groups listed
    Chinese
    Mexican

  15. Water for farming was easy to access in the west.

    16. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  16. Annie Oakley was part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Vaudville Show.

    17. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  17. Every part of the Buffalo was used by the Native americans, except for the feet.

    18. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  18. Mining towns of the west were like human hives where law and order was upheld by elected officals.

    19. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  19. Barbed wire replaced wooden fences in the west because they were cheaper and easier to install than wooden fences.

    20. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

  20. Soddies were houses made out of grass, that people built because of the lack of wood in the plains of the west.

    21. Your answer:
    TrueFalse

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