7 Written Questions

1. law signed in 1862 offering free land to people willing to start new farms on the Great Plains
2. a railroad that crosses a continent
3. Inverntor who helped develop the Morse code, which was used to help send messages by telegraph
4. land set aside by the government for the Native Americans
5. sudden movement of people to an area where gold has been found
6. Place in northwestern Utah were tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in 1869 to complete the transcontinental railroad
7. early settler of a region

6 Multiple Choice Questions

1. United States military leader who was defeated by the Lakota at the Battle of Little Bighorn
   1. gold rush
   2. exoduster
   3. George Custer
   4. sodbuster
2. device that sends messages through wires using electricity
   1. cattle drive
   2. gold rush
   3. Telegraph
   4. Pioneer
3. Service begun in 1860 that used a relay of riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California
   1. Pony Express
   2. Pioneer
   3. entrepreneur
   4. gold rush
4. Method cowboys used to move large herds of cattle north from ranches in Texas to towns along the railroads in the late 1800s
   1. gold rush
   2. Telegraph
   3. cattle drive
   4. Samuel Morse
5. immigrant from Germanywho produced the first denim pants in SanFransisco during the California gold rush
   1. gold rush
   2. homesteader
   3. Levi Strauss
   4. Pony Express
6. Lakota victory over the United States soldiers on June 25,1876
   1. Samuel Morse
   2. Mark Twain
   3. cattle drive
   4. Battle of Little Bighorn

6 True/False Questions

1. Technology → device that sends messages through wires using electricity

   True        False

2. sodbuster → Name for African-American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War

   True        False

3. homesteader → settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act

   True        False

4. exoduster → Name for African-American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War

   True        False

5. entrepreneur → Person who starts a new buisness,hoping to make a profit

   True        False

6. Mark Twain → land set aside by the government for the Native Americans

   True        False