American I - Moving West, Natives & Cowboys Review

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 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

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.

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation

This painting was completed in 1864, just before the end of the Civil War. At that time, what idea did the western frontier represent to many Americans?

• The need to establish national parks
• The threat of industrial pollution
• The abundance of wildlife
• The promise of a new beginning for the nation.

Mormons moved from New York to the West in the early 1830s in order to

• obey the Book of Mormon
• prosper in the fur trade
• seek out religious freedom
• gold

List an obstacle that settlers faced traveling west.

• mountains
• crossing rivers
• the great plains
• all of the above