Unit 1 Test: United States History since 1877

Based on this poster, which is an accurate statement?

• Immigrants were encouraged to learn and to speak English

• Granite City had laws prohibiting immigrants from moving there

• The people in the poster were native-born Americans

• Granite City encourged diversity in its immigrant population

The Homestead Act (1862) promoted the development of western lands by -

• creating a system of dams for crop irrigation

• providing land for $10 to settlers

• removing all restrictions on immigration

• Moving Native American Indians to reservations

How did passage of the Dawes Act affect Native American Indians?

• It supported their existing cultural traditions

• It started a series of Indian Wars on the Great Plains

• It attempted to assimilate them into mainstream American culture

• It forced their removal from areas east of the Mississippi River

Which was a successful example of "Americanization"?

• The Dawes Act led to Americanization of the Indians.

• The Homestead Act made federal land available to settlers.

• The children of New Immigrants learned English in public schools.

• Congress prohibited the immigration of Chinese workers.

What is happening in this photo?

• The Civil War is being ended

• Transcontinental railroad is being finished

• Transcontinental railroad is being started

Related to what we have been studying in class what is a Reservation?

• To hold or request a spot or item

• land set aside for Native American Tribes.

• to pause or hesitate about something

• To maintain or keep in good condition

How did westward expansion impact Native Americans?

• Native Americans and white settlers lived side by side as equals

• it destroyed the buffalo and the Native American way of life

• Native Americans acquired more lan

• it helped the Native Americans prosper

This act was intended to help Native Americans acquire private land in the reservations, but instead they sold them. It was also intended to have Native Americans assimilate.

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust

Learning to dress, speak, and act like other Americans is knows as 

• Urbanization
• Americanization/Assimilation
• Immigration
• Nativism

Which resource primarily drew pioneers to California?

• Wheat

• Gold

• Corn

• Copper