The American 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 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  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.

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

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

What was the last armed conflict to take place between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army?

• The Battle of Tippecanoe
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Wounded Knee
• The Battle of Little Big Horn

What policy did the government promote to help Native Americans?

• Vigilantism
• Progressvism
• The referendum
• Assimilation 

Which of the following acts of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?

• the Homestead Act
• the Morrill Land Grant Act
• the Indian Removal Act
• the Dawes Act