The Development of the West and Industrialization Review

The passage of the Homestead Act and the completion of the transcontinental railroad helped to fulfill the United States commitment to

• a. Reconstruction

• b. Racial equality

• c. Manifest destiny

• d. Conservation of natural resources

1. What happened as a result of the offers like the one shown on this 1872 poster?

• a. More Native American Indians on the Great Plains were forced onto reservations

• b. The government began to restrict the number of acres that people could buy

• c. The Great Plains states become the new center for manufacturing

• d. Missouri and Nebraska became new territories

The purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided free federal land, was to

• a. encourage settlement of the West

• b. set up reservations for Native American Indians

• c. establish land-grant agricultural colleges

• d. assist in the construction of transcontinental railroads

In the period from 1860 to 1900, the Federal Government encouraged the settlement of the West by

• a. passing an increased number of liberal immigration laws

• b. selling the most fertile public land to Native American Indians

• c. providing free transportation to settlers moving to the frontier

• d. granting tracts of land to railroad companies to encourage construction

"[Buffalo hunters] have done more in the last two years, and will do more in the next year, to settle the . . . Indian question than the entire regular army has done in the last thirty years. . . . For the sake of peace let them kill, skin, and sell until the buffalo are destroyed.” —General Philip Sheridan

- What was the result of the process described in this quotation

• a. Native American Indians were granted farmland under the Homestead Act.

• b. The disappearance of their economic base helped drive Native American Indians onto reservations.

• c. Many Native American Indians moved to Eastern cities to work in factories

• d. Most Native American Indians migrated to Canada to find new ways to earn a living.

In the late 1800’s, the goal of the Federal Government’s policy toward Native American Indians was to

• a. destroy tribal bonds and thus weaken their traditional cultural values

• b. grant them full citizenship and due process

• c. give their tribal groups authority over their own affairs

• d. increase the land holdings of western tribes

The passage of the Dawes Act in 1887 was primarily an attempt by the United States government to

• a. limit the power of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

• b. return eastern land to Native American Indian tribes

• c. encourage Native American Indians to give up their traditional cultures

• d. hire Native American Indians as military scouts

Rapid industrialization growth of the late 1800s was made possible by all of the following factors except

• A. A technological revolution

• B. Financial investments

• C. Public welfare programs

• D. Improved transportation systems

“Prices and wages should be determined by the marketplace.”

The author of this statement would most probably support

• a) government ownership of utilities

• b) minimum-wage laws

• c) wage and price controls

• d) laissez-faire capitalism

In the late 1800s, the corporation became an important form of business organization primarily because it

• (1) had closer ties with its employees

• (2) could raise large amounts of investment capital

• (3) made better quality products

• (4) called for conservation of natural resources