Chapter 18 Questions

Use complete sentences when answering these questions. (Pages. 586 – 605) Section 1 1. Why did Americans move West in the years following the Civil War?

2. What led to the cattle boom in the West?

3. Why was there competition between ranchers and farmers to settle in the Great Plains?

4. When and where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines meet?

Section 2

5. What animals did Plains Indians depend on, and how did they use those animals?

6. Why do you think most Indian groups eventually stopped resisting the United States?

7. How did the Dawes General Allotment Act affect American Indians?

Section 3

8. How did the U.S. government make lands available to western settlers?

9. What was the goal of the National Grange? 10. What was the Oklahoma land rush?