Gilded Age - West and American Indian

When was the Gilded Age?

• 1870-1900
• 1820-1860
• 1900-1920
• 1865-1877

What was the primary source of food for the Plains Indians?

• Buffalo 
• Deer
• Corn 
• Salmon

Which law granted 160 acres of land to any male head of household willing to move West?

• The Interstate Commerce Act
• The Pendleton Act
• The Homestead Act 
• The Dawes Act

What transportation innovation lead to increased Western Expansion?

• the steamship
• the wagon trail
• the airplane
• the Transcontinental Railroad

Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers. 

• Dawes Act
• Ghost Dance
• Trail of Tears
• Homestead Act

General Custer lead what military battle with the Native Americans?

• Sand Creek Massacre 
• Battle of Little Bighorn 
• Black Hills War 
• The Sioux Battle 

Cowboys drove their cattle from Texas to ___________ in the North.

• Railroad towns
• Slaughter Houses
• Greenlee's mom's house
• Chicago

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

Who were Exodusters?

• American Indians demanding return of tribal lands
• Eastern Europeans immigrating to US after WWI
• African Americans leaving South after Civil War
• Colonial Americans forming local militias during Revolution

Use of barbed wire most associated with which outcome?

• Completion of Union Pacific Railroad
• End of open range and frontier
• Increased prospecting and mining activity
• Increased demand for and production of steel