Standard 4 USHC Review

This law created 160 acres plots of land to be sold for a small fee to encourage settlement in the west.

• Dawes Act
• Land Grant College Act
• Homestead Act
• Oklahoma Land Giveaway

Which two immigrant groups were responsible for most of the hard labor in
building those lines?

• Irish and German
• German and Dutch
• Chinese and Irish
• Chinese and Dutch

Name the battle where that US leader and all his men were killed by a large
Indian force?

• Wounded Knee
• Sand Creek
• Nez Perce
• Little Bighorn

Name the law which tried to create 160 acre Indian homesteads out of the
reservation land?

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Land Grant Act
• Transcontinental Act

This was an Indian spiritual movement thought to end the harsh rule of the white
man and aid in the victory of the Indians?

• Red Dance
• Buffalo Dance
• Rain Dance
• Ghost Dance

This was the last battle of the Indian wars as a couple hundred Sioux were killed
by the Army?

• Little Bighorn
• Wounded Knee
• Sand Creek
• Trail of Tears

What term BEST describes the U.S. government's policies towards the regulation of businesses during the Gilded Age (late 1800s)?

• Imperialist

• Laissez-faire

• Mercantilists

• Protectionist

During the mid 1800s, how did the federal government encourage the settlement of the West?

• provide forty acres of land and a mule to formerly enslaved persons

• provide free land to people who would create a home there

• provide mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver

• provide land to companies to build transcontinental railroads

How did critics claim that big business and monopolies hurt the economy?

• by limiting competition

• by decreasing the urban growth rate

• by preventing technological innovation

• by failing to keep pace with European industries

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad