SOL 8 Review - Industrial Revolution through Progressive Era

The intent of the Homestead Act was to

• prevent African Americans from settling in the West

• make money for the government

• settle Native Americans in farming communities

• encourage white families to develop the West

After the Civil War, where did many people settle?

• the West from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean

• the West from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean

• the West from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains

How did American cowboys move cattle to market?

• Railroad

• long cattle drives across unfenced open land in the west

• huge ranches

• long cattle drives across fenced land in the west

Why did people move west after the Civil War? What was their incentive?

• They wanted to rebuild their lives: free public land through the Dawes Act

• They wanted to escape the South; free public land through the Dawes Act

• They wanted to escape the South; adventure

• They wanted to rebuild their lives; free public land through the Homestead Act of 1862

All of the following technologies helped open the lands in the west except:

• railroads

• telephone

• steam engine

• telegraph

• mechanical reaper

Invented the telephone:

• Edwin L. Drake

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Henry Bessemer

• Alexander Graham Bell

Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories from rivers?

• electricity

• railroads

• steel beams

• telephone

All of the following factors contributed to the immense industrial boom of the early 1900s except:

• a wealth of natural resources

• a growing urban population

• government support of business

• the emergence of the middle class

Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan

• J.D. Rockefellar

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the railroad industry

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan

• J.D. Rockefellar

• Cornelius Vanderbilt