FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

WESTWARD EXPANSION EXAM QUESTIONS

Qs and Ans Expert- Explanation

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-Guarantee passing score -11 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert- Explanation

Question 1: Subsidy

Answer:

financial aid or land grant from the government. Congress gave subsidies to the railroad companies.

Question 2: Homestead Act

Answer:

Free land for people to farm. Half a million Americans had set up farms; many people didn't have the $ to move west & start a farm.

Question 3: Massacre at Wounded Knee

Answer:

About 300 Native Americans were killed by US troops while trying to surrender, when a shot accidentally rang out.

Question 4: Tepee

Answer:

tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles

Question 5: Sitting Bull

Answer:

Lakota war chief and holy man. Leader in the Souix War of 1876. Killed by police officers when they were trying to arrest him for spreading the ghost dance.

Question 6: Cow Towns

Answer:

settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail.

Question 7: Reservation

Answer:

a limited area set aside for Native Americans

Question 8: Custer's Last Stand/ Battle of Little Big Horn

Answer:

Gen. Custer and all his men were killed in an attack against the Souix Indians. 1876

Question 9: Ghost Dance

Answer:

a Native American dance thought to make a new world free of white men and filled with plenty.

Question 10: Dawes Act

Answer:

by Congress in 1887 to encourage Native Americans to become farmers. Divided up their land & gave it to individual families.

Question 11: Transcontinental Railroad

Answer:

railroad that stretches across the continent from coast to coast