U.S.Top. 1-3 U.S. History

Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?

• The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.
• Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.
• Railroads allowed People to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.
• Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.

Gave 160 acres of western land to anyone who promised to farm.

• Homestead Act

• Haymarket Act

• Freeland Act

• Indian Removal Act

At what battle did the Sioux Indians defeat the US Army?

• Little Big Horn

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Santa Fe

US Army massacred Sioux men, women, and children.

• Little Big Horn

• Wounded Knee

• Bull Run

• Appamattox

Political Party that pushed for an income tax & direct election of Senators

• Federalists

• Democrat

• Populist

• Republican

Which was NOT central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians?

• the horse

• the buffalo

• the extended family

• land ownership

Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains

• Nacirema

• Exodusters

• Populists

• Scalawags

This leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux never signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie. He helped to defeat the U.S. Army at the Little Bighorn, toured in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show for awhile, encouraged the Ghost Dance movement, and was eventually killed during an attempt by reservation police to arrest him.

• Raging Bull

• Red Bull

• Sitting Bull

• Bull Durham

Father of the modern American steel industry

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Gompers

• Eugene V. Debs

• Edwin L. Drake

Founded American Railway Union; Socialist unionist

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Gompers

• Eugene V. Debs

• Thomas Edison