The West

How did Congress support construction of the transcontinental railroad?

• By providing vigilantes
• By promoting an open-range system
• By providing land grants
• By passing the Homestead Act

What is the true of the American West from the 1850s onward?

• It had the widest diversity of people in the nation.
• It had the smallest Chinese immigrant population in the nation.
• It had the most plentiful water supply in the nation.
• It was the most urbanized part of the nation. 

What common trait was shared by different Indian cultures?

• They are preferred to live on reservations.
• They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.
• They all viewed nature as sacred.
• They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.

What did the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 provide?

• It recognized Native American tribes as independent nations.
• It presented land to individual Native American tribes.
• It improved conditions on reservations.
• It granted each Native American family a 160-acres farmstead.

Government ownership of railroads and regulation of banks was a position taken by which political party?

• The Republican Party
• The Transcendentalists
• The Federalist Party
• The Populist Party

"If you strike off into the broad, free West, and make yourself a farm from Uncle Sam's generous domain you will crowd nobody, starve nobody, and neither you nor your children need evermore beg..." -Excerpt from New York Tribune, February 5, 1867. What reality about the American West does the excerpt ignore?

• It was not free to settle in the West after 1840.
• Many Native Americans inhabited the West in the 1860s.
• No farmland was available in the West.
• No one wanted to move to the West in 1860s.

Who were the "Exodusters"?

• Mexican Americans who fled after the Mexican-American War
• African Americans who fled the South after Reconstruction
• Chinese Americans who fled the North after the Gold Rush
• Native Americans who fled the East after the Battle of Fallen Timbers.

Which of the following factors contributed to the demise of the open-range system?

• The use of sod for houses
• The invention of barbed wire
• The development of railroads
• The disappearance of big mining companies

What policy did the government promote to help Native Americans?

• Vigilantism
• Progressvism
• The referendum
• Assimilation 

The Populist Party supported which goals?

• Immigration reform and gold standard
• Coinage of silver and government ownership of railroads
• Lower crop prices and higher tariffs
• Unregulated banks and higher grain storage fees