OCR GCSE History B The Making of America 1789 to 1900 overview quiz quiz

Gold mining

The buffalo

Cotton farming

Fishing

They were native to the Plains

From the railroads

From the Spanish

From the British

Free railroad tickets to travel out to the western Plains

The right to mine for gold on any land they claimed

Army protection from attacks by the Plains Indians

160 acres of free land for farming it five years

The belief that Americans were destined to settle the whole continent

A railroad company that built the line across to the west coast

A formal peace treaty signed between the government and the Plains Indians

A gold rush town that sprang up in the west during the 1800s

The army defeated Sitting Bull and forced the Sioux onto reservations

The Sioux and Cheyenne wiped out Custer's force

Gold was discovered in the Black Hills, drawing thousands of miners

The first transcontinental railroad across the Plains was completed

A great Native victory over the United States army

The signing of a lasting peace treaty on the Plains

A massacre that ended the Indian Wars

The opening of a large new reservation for the Sioux

Which routes the new railroads should follow west

Who had the right to mine the newly discovered gold

How best to share out the dwindling buffalo herds

Slavery and its expansion into new territories

Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

It had far better generals than the South right from the very start of the war

Greater resources, leadership, a naval blockade and the Emancipation Proclamation

Foreign armies from Britain and France came over to fight on the side of the North

The South ran out of will and surrendered almost immediately after the war began

Gave Black men across the United States the right to vote

Granted full citizenship and equal protection to former slaves

Abolished slavery throughout the United States

Ended the period of Reconstruction in the defeated South

It protected tribal land from ever being sold off to white settlers

It ended the reservation system completely and let the tribes return to the Plains

It returned the buffalo herds so the tribes could hunt them once more

It broke up tribal land into plots and stripped tribes of much of their land

It had been destroyed by the loss of the buffalo, reservations and assimilation

It had grown stronger as the tribes adapted to the changes around them

It was almost entirely unchanged from how it had been a century earlier

They had reclaimed the Plains and driven the white settlers back off their land