Social Studies-Chapter 6

1. The most important resource of the Plains Indians was ______________________ .

The buffalo

The horse

Wheat

Corn

2. Settlers on the Great Plains used sod to build their houses because ______________________________.

Sod houses were cleaner than other buildings.

There were few trees that could be used for wood.

Houses made from wood were too cold in the winters.

The railroads paid people to live in sod houses.

3. Which of the following caused some mining towns to become ghost towns?

The range wars destroyed all the buildings in the town.

The mines ran out of gold, silver, or copper.

The railroads moved away.

The vaqueros ordered everyone to leave town.

4. Law and order was miantained in the mining towns by _________________________.

The U.S. Army

Vigilance Committees

County sheriffs

The Union Army

5. What were long drives?

Transportation by railroad

Special areas of farmland given to Homesteaders

The path of the buffalo migration on the Great Plains

Trips on which cowhands moved large numbers of cows to the railroads

6. What happened during a mining boom?

Most people lost all of their money.

People moved away from mining areas.

Gold, silver, and copper mines were closed.

There was quick economic growth.

7. Which of the following caused some farmers to leave their farms on the Great Plains?

Railroads

Immigrants

Low crop prices

Barbed wire

8. After Joseph McCoy opened his stokyards near some railroad tracks in Abilene, Kansas, ___________________________.

Many farmers moved to the Great Plains

The Indians started moving to the reservations.

Ranchers started moving cattle to the "cow towns".

The mining boom in the West ended.

9. Why did the U.S. soldiers chase the Nez Perces for more than 1,700 miles?

Because the Nez Perces were living on land that contained gold

To punish them for defeating Custer and his soldiers

Because the Nez Perces were trying to escape to Canada

To stop them from going to war with the Sioux

10. Why did General George Custer take his soldiers to the Little Bighorn River in 1876?

To open a new railroad through the Black Hills

To protect cowhands on long drives across the Sioux reservation

To help miners in a boomtown

To take back the land the government had given the Sioux

11. The person who invented a stronger plow to cut through the thick sod was ____________________________.

Joseph Glidden

James Oliver

Richard King

George Custer

12. The range wars were caused by ___________________________.

The use of barbed wire.

The steel plow.

The British.

Railroad owners.