Western Expansion and Populism

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

• They had to file a claim with the bank

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

• They had to wheel portable cabins from plot to plot

• They had to live on the land all year long

The army encouraged the killing of buffalo in order to

• starve Native Americans

• make way for new railroad lines

• protect crops

• force Native Americans onto reservations

Eventually, the open range system came to an end with a new invention called

• lariats

• barbed wire

• range barriers

• electric fences

He was wiped out at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

• George Custer

• J.G. McCoy

• Charles Goodnight

• Chief Joseph

Most African American Exodusters migrated west to

• escape racial violence in the South

• find relatives who had fled during the Civil War

• work as sharecroppers on bonanza farms

• prospect for gold and silver

Farmers opposed the gold standard because they claimed that it would

• undermine the national economy

• cause high inflation

• cause prices for their crops to decline

• make the currency unstable

Which of the following did the Populist Party suggest would raise crop prices?

• government ownership of railroads

• a graduated income tax

• an alliance of urban workers

• the coinage of "free silver"

Which state was the first to allow women suffrage?

• Texas

• Virginia

• Maryland

• Wyoming

One way the government sought to change Native Americans was by

• teaching them to hunt buffalo

• requiring them to move to growing cities

• finding them jobs on the railroads

• requiring them to farm individual plots

Farmers generally favored

• the gold standard

• lower crop prices

• higher tariffs

• lower tariffs