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THE SOUTH AND WEST TRANSFORMED
Test A
A.
Key Terms and People
Directions: Match the terms in Column II with the correct definition from Column I.
(3 points each)
Column I
Column II
1. a railroad that connected the East and the West
2. the place where Indians defeated over
250 U.S. soldiers led by George Custer
3. an area set aside for Indians to live
4. a self-appointed person who enforces the law
5. a law giving black citizens the right to ride
trains and use other public services
6. the place where U.S. troops killed over
100 Indians
7. a law that gave land to citizens who agreed to
live on the land for five years
a. cash crop
b. Civil Rights Act
of 1875
c. reservation
d. Little Big Horn
e. Wounded Knee
f. assimilate
g. vigilante
h. transcontinental
railroad
i. open range
j. Homestead Act
8. to become similar to other people in a culture
or group
9. a crop that is grown to be sold for cash
10. a system of ranching in which cattle were branded
and allowed to graze freely on the plains
B.
Key Concepts
Directions: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in each blank. (4 points each)
11. During Reconstruction, most farmers in the South
a. raised food crops.
b. raised cotton or tobacco.
c. moved to the North.
12. The purpose of the Farmers’ Alliance was to
a. organize southern farmers.
b. start textile factories.
c. destroy boll weevils.
13. Which of the following limited the civil rights of southern blacks?
a. local and state laws
b. the Civil Rights Act of 1875
c. the Farmers’ Alliance
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Directions: Use the chart to answer questions 14 and 15.
14. Which Native Americans used irrigation in farming?
a. Pueblos
b. Navajos
c. Sioux
15. What conclusion can be drawn from this chart?
a. Hunting was not important for Native Americans.
b. Native Americans lived mostly on the Great Plains.
c. Native American groups shared some characteristics and did not share
others.
16. How did white settlement of the West change the lives of Native Americans?
a. Native Americans built reservations where they could live without
interference.
b. Native Americans were forced from their homelands.
c. Native Americans gave up hunting and became farmers.
17. What effect did mining have on the West?
a. It made westerners wealthy.
b. It attracted huge numbers of people to the region.
c. Miners built pleasant, charming towns near the mines.
18. How did the transcontinental railroad affect the nation?
a. The nation shrank in size.
b. It slowed the development of industry.
c. The population of the West increased.
19. How did railroads change the business of cattle ranching?
a. Ranchers had a way to transport meat to markets in the East.
b. Cowboys found an easier way to travel between work and home.
c. Eastern cowboys traveled to the West.
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20. What were the lives of most homesteaders like in the West of the late 1800s?
a. calm and relaxing
b. hard and lonely
c. busy with social duties
C.
Document-Based Question
Directions: Use the quotation below to answer the following question on a separate sheet of
paper. (10 points)
“If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian
up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented,
nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where
they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he
sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.”
—Chief Joseph, quoted in the North American Review, April 1879
21. Explain why Chief Joseph believed that reservations were undesirable places for
Native Americans to live.
D.
Critical Thinking and Writing
Directions: Answer the following question on the back of this paper or on a separate sheet of
paper. (10 points each)
22. What was the conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. government relating
to western lands? How did this conflict get resolved?
23. How did the open-range system of cattle ranching benefit western ranchers, and
why was branding cattle important to the success of this system?
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