Industrialization and Westward Expansion

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 invention prevented cowboys from trampling on farmers land?

• Rifle

• Pesticides

• Barbed Wire

• Border Wall

What facilitated (made possible) economic growth in the West?

• settlement houses

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• cotton production in the South

• growth of railroads

Which of the following statements describes how Westward Movement affected Native Americans?

• Many Native Americans were pushed off their homelands and forced onto reservations.
• They were paid for their land so that they could buy land elsewhere.
• Americans gained a better understanding of Native American culture and began treating them with respect.
• American pioneers offered to share the land with the Native Americans.

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?

• Pacific Railroad Act

• Homestead Act

• Sherman AntiTrust Act

• Dawes Act

How did the development of the railroad impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east

What development helped Americans expand westward?

• transcontinental railroad
• automobiles
• industrialization
• Native American expansion

What do you call a town that experiences a sudden growth?

• exoduster
• boom town
• reservation
• vigilante

_______________ were African Americans who took advantage of the Homestead Act to escape the South

• exodusters

• vaqueros

• sodbusters

• grangers