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Chapter 11: The South and West Transformed

Authored by Joel Darden

Social Studies

12th Grade

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Chapter 11: The South and West Transformed
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years was known as

The Homestead Act

The Pacific Railway Act

The Indian Removal Act

The Morrill Act

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

That federal act that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges (Greensboro A&T, Texas A& M) in U.S. states using the proceeds of federal land sales was known as

The Pacific Railway Act

The Indian Removal Act

The Sherman Antitrust Act

The Morrill Act

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The last major land rush took place in 1889 when the federal government opened this territory to homesteaders:

Utah

California

Oklahoma

Montana

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Analogy: Irish immigrants are to the Union Pacific as _________ immigrants are to the Central Pacific.

Russian

German

English

Chinese

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War were known as __________________.

Homesteaders

Sooners

Boomers

Exodusters

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on July 1, 1862, this act provided Federal government support for the building of the first transcontinental railroad, which was completed on May 10, 1869.

The Homestead Act

The Interstate Commerce Act

The Morrill Act

The Pacific Railway Act

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which technology or innovation brought an end to the "open-range system" of ranching

crop rotation

barbed wire

automatic irrigation systems

cattle branding

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