Homestead Act and Dawes Act

The amendment that freed all slaves. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?

• Homestead Act
• Morril Act
• Dawes Act
• Reconstruction Act

What gave settlers 160 acres of land in exchange for the settlers "improving" their new land?

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Morril Act
• Reconstruction Act

What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?

• Homestead Act
• Morril Act
• Dawes Act
• Reconstruction Act

What did the Homestead Act offer?

• a new home for travelers

• a stop along the Oregon Trail

• free land after 5 years of living on it.

How long did you have to farm the land to keep it under the Homestead act?

• 1
• 5
• 10

How did people move west?

• Horse and Wagon
• Railroad
• Steamship
• all of the above

The transcontinental railroad ______

• connected east and west
• connected north and south

As settlers moved onto the Great Plains in the 1800s, they needed to build shelters. One way that many settlers met this need was by building sod houses. Why did many settlers build houses made out of sod?

• Sod houses would typically last longer than houses made out of other materials.
• Sod houses cost little to build because sod was widely available.
• Sod houses were more fashionable than other types of buildings
• Sod houses were better suited for cold weather than other buildings.

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868