3.1 West/Farmers

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

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

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

• The Great Plains states became the new center for manufacturing.

• Missouri and Nebraska became new territories.

The Dawes Act of 1887 granted farmland to Native American Indians as part of a plan to

• give them enough space to raise buffalo

• assimilate them into American society

• preserve tribal cultural traditions

• promote peace between warring tribes

A main goal of the Granger movement of the 1870's and 1880's was to

• force the railroads to lower freight rates

• reduce the rate of inflation

• strengthen labor unions

• improve living conditions in urban slums

"Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people." (1892)

Which group showed the greatest support for this idea?

• western farmers

• union leaders

• factory owners

• railroad owners

A cause of economic hardship for farmers in the decades following the Civil War was

• cheap money, which inflated prices for farm machinery

• many railroad lines dissapperaing in the West

• overproduction lowering prices of farm goods

• high prices for land, which limited agricultural expansion