Dudley SSUSH11

I just moved to America in search of gold. Instead, I took a job working on the Transcontinental Railroad. I am paid less than white workers, even though I am a hard worker.

• African American
• European Immigrant
• Mexican American
• Asian Immigrant

I just moved to America, but I'm too poor to travel to the West. Instead, I will start a family here in the city. People don't like me because I wasn't born in the United States.

• Asian Immigrants
• European Immigrants
• Mexican Americans
• African Americans

The Transcontinental Railroad impacted the development of the West in all of the following ways EXCEPT: 

• Attracting immigrant settlers
• Providing a means of travel
• Promoting the Homestead Act
• Transporting agricultural goods

How did the railroad foster economic growth in the development of the West

• a.  By providing sharecroppers a means of travel to and from their jobs
• a.  By providing farmers with the means of getting their crops to market
• a.  By providing Native Americans a means to sell their furs at market
• a.  By providing the bison a place to roam freely throughout the plains

What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans?

• the railroads helped the NA move east
• Native Americans got jobs on the railroads
• the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supple and resources
• the railroads increased the amount of land the NA had

Which of the following acts of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?

• the Homestead Act
• the Morrill Land Grant Act
• the Indian Removal Act
• the Dawes Act

What was the goal of the Dawes Act?

• Congress gave Native Americans farm land and sent their children to Indian Schools.
• Provide land for homesteaders.
• Provided subsidies for the transcontinental railroad.

____________ is a negative term to describe the great industrialists of the Gilded Age and __________ is a positive term to describe them.

• Robber Barons, Captains of Industry
• Captains of Industry, Robber Barons

I had a monopoly on the steel industry. I am ______________

• Thomas Edison
• John D. Rockefeller
• The Wright Brothers
• Andrew Carnegie

I invented the telephone. I am ______________

• Thomas Edison
• Andrew Carnegie
• Alexander Graham Bell
• John D. Rockefeller