Push Pull Factors

Which of the following did not sell land to settlers?

• bankers

• “land-grant” colleges

• railroads

• land speculators

What did the Morrill Land-Grant Act and the Homestead Act have in common?

• They provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands.

• They forced Native Americans onto reservations.

• They discriminated against African American families.

• They enabled railroad companies to develop the land near their tracks.

What was one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act?

• They had to live on the land all year long.

• They had to farm the land for five years in a row.

• They had to file a claim with a bank.

• They had to wheel portable cabins from plot to plot.

What was a major incentive in the settling of the West?

• the legal, private ownership of land

• the award of large land grants to the railroads

• the award of large land grants to the railroads

• the refuge offered for outlaws and the oppressed

Most African American Exodusters migrated west to

• work as sharecroppers on bonanza farms.

• escape racial violence in the South.

• find relatives who had fled during the Civil War.

• prospect for gold and silver.

Who owned much of the western land near prime transportation routes?

• Exodusters

• “land-grant” colleges

• homesteaders

• railroads

What drew many new immigrants to the West?

• the opportunity to learn new languages

• the climate on the plains

• “land-grant” colleges

• cheap land and new jobs

bought up large areas of land in the hope of selling it later for a profit

• Speculators

• Homestead Act

• Populists

• Boomers

migrated to western lands to escape racial violence faced in the South

• Irish

• Germans

• Exodusters

• Sioux Indians

The ____ distributed millions of acres of western lands to state governments.

• Homestead Act

• Morril Act

• Wounded Knee Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act