Chapter 7 Into the West   1. Which of these is a true statement about the nomadic people of the plains?     A) Among the nomadic peoples were the Omaha and Osage nations.     B) They generally lived in permanent homes in villages.     C) They followed the great herds of buffalo that lived on the plains.     D) They were farmers and hunters.   2. What important addition to the culture of the Plains people occurred in the 1600s?     A) buffalo     B) horses     C) railroads     D) dogs   3. What was the main cause for the defeat of the Plains people?     A) General George Custer's stand at the Little Bighorn     B) their dependence on the buffalo herd for their way of life     C) the battle at Wounded Knee     D) their unwillingness to fight for their land   4. Why was the Dawes Act unsuccessful?     A) The Dawes Act was the direct result of mean-spirited military leaders in the United States Army who wanted to see the Native American people destroyed.     B) The Dawes Act was undermined by A Century of Dishonor, a book written by Helen Hunt Jackson.     C) Many of the Native Americans were not equipped socially and culturally to live on the lands that were allotted to them.     D) The Dawes Act deprived Native Americans from ever owning their own land.   5. Mavericks had multiplied on the open range after the Texas Revolution in 1836. By 1860, these cattle increased to between 3 and 4 million head. Why were they called mavericks?     A) They were cattle ready for the long drive.     B) They were cattle ready to be shipped North on railroads.     C) They were unbranded.     D) They could be sold for a cheap price.   6. How did trails like the Chisholm Trail develop?     A) They were roads built for settlers to use when they traveled west.     B) They were the areas where mavericks roamed freely.     C) They were the routes taken on the long cattle drives to the North.     D) They were the sites for railroads to and from cattle towns.   7. The Cattle Kingdom expanded because of ____________     A) the funds of Northern financiers.     B) an ample supply of laborers.     C) demand for cotton by industrial nations.     D) demand for beef in the North.   8. What caused the decline in the cattle industry toward the end of the 1800s?     A) dime novels about cowboys     B) overproduction, overgrazing, and bad weather conditions     C) lack of demand for meat     D) development of railroads   9. What important discovery was made in the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada?     A) copper     B) gambling     C) silver     D) gold   10. All of the following inventions contributed to improved farming on the plains EXCEPT_______     A) wooden fences.     B) the mechanical binder.     C) barbed wire.     D) the harvesting machine.   11. What created the great urban populations and markets that expanded the need for food?     A) specialized farming     B) the invention of the reaper     C) the Industrial Revolution     D) city slickers   12. Which of the following kinds of weather would you expect to see on the Great Plains?     A) rainy summers and cold, dry winters     B) mild summers and cold winters     C) long, hot summers and cold winters     D) dry, hot summers and cool, mild winters   13. The life of people farming on the Great Plains was made difficult by all of the following EXCEPT____________     A) railroads.     B) solitude and drudgery.     C) economic conditions.     D) weather conditions.   14. The term that means the same as economic goods is ____________     A) investments.     B) freight rates.     C) commodities.     D) technologies.   15. Who or what helped states to set up universities for frontier men and women?     A) Willa Cather     B) Hamlin Garland     C) the Morrill Act     D) the Homestead Act