U.S. History 5 Review

What offered up to 160 acres of land to any citizen who was head of the household? 

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Homestead Act
• Grange
• Morrill Act

At what location did General Chivington attack Cheyenne and Arapaho people who thought they were under protection of the U.S. government? 

• Sand Creek
• Red River
• Wounded Knee
• Fort Laramie

This person built a cattle shipping yard in Abilene Kansas, which would become the end of the Chisholm Trail.  

• Custer
• Glidden
• McCoy
• Vaquero

African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction south to Kansas were called: 

• soddies
• grangers
• scalawegs
• exodusters

The destruction of this animal hurt tribal life on the Plains the most:  

• horses
• deer
• buffalo
• longhorns

The federal government provided land to the states to create agricultural colleges with the: 

• Hatch Act
• Morrill Act
• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act

The original purpose of this organization was to provide a social outlet and an education forum to isolated farm families:

• Grange
• Farmers Alamanac
• Soddy Club
• Exodusters

What group of people came to the U.S. in large numbers and helped build the railroad from the west coast? 

• Russians
• Koreans
• French 
• Chinese

What state got the nickname Sooner state after people claimed land there before they were supposed to?  

• Kansas
• Texas
• Oklahoma
• Missouri

The long drive typically took about: 

• 1 month 
• 3 months
• 6 months
• 9 months