US History Quarter 1 Review

What act allowed the national government to make deals with the Native Americans to exchange their land?

• Indian Removal Act

• Civillization ACt

• Manifest Destiny Act

• Indian Territory Act

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

Promised settlers 160 acres of land for $1.65 an acre if they could improve the land.

• Pacific Railway Act

• Continental Railroad Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

What happened to cowboys on the "open range"?

• they retired to boom towns on their wealth

• land was overgrazed and barbed wired started the "closed range"

• cattle were shipped to Chicago for slaughter

• they were killed by Indians or moved to reservations

Battle where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated the Americans under General Custer.

• Wounded Knee

• Little Big Horn

• Sitting Bull's Last Stand

• Ghost Town

Many Native Americans relied heavily on the buffalo for many of their basic needs. In what way did industrialization affect the buffalo population in the United States?

• Due to fears that the buffalo population was threatened by westward expansion, the US government designated the buffalo as a protected species.

• The development of the steam engine resulted in decreased Native American reliance on the buffalo and the population quickly grew in size.

• The development of mass production techniques in the textile industry caused an increase in demand for buffalo hide and the population decreased dramatically.

• The buffalo were killed for their furs and to drive away Native Americans who occupied land that the federal government desired for the development of railroads.

Sent Native American children to assimilation school; stripped them of language, clothing, names, etc... Name of school leading this assimilation attempt?

• Indian Industrial School

• Carlisle Industrial Indian School

• Carlisle Industrial School

• None of the Above

What term means the movement to make social change?

• Temperance Movement

• Progressive Movement

• Mass Production

• Women's Suffrage Movement

Which of the following was NOT an issue the Progressives were trying to fix about society in the early 1900's?

• Education Reform

• Alcohol

• Prisoner Abuse

• Tax Reform

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

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