West Quiz 3

where was the KLONDIKE gold rush?

• Texas

• California

• Toronto

• Yukon

What act helped settlement in the Great Plains?

• Navigation Acts

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Homestead Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What weather did the Great Plains endure?

• Cold weather always

• Humid weather

• Extreme weather varying by seasons (dry to cold)

• Several inches of rainfall daily

What technology helped settle the Great Plains?

• Steel Plow

• Dry Farming

• Railroad

• All of the answer choices are correct

Who struck lucky at the Gold Rush?

• Everyone

• All Americans

• Mexicans

• Very select few

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

• Lure Native Americans to migrate to the frontier

• Entice Native Americans to move to urban areas

• Give Native Americans jobs in the federal bureaucracy

• Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle

What was a negative aspect of the "Americanization" policy of the late 1880s for American Indians?

• Indians attended reservation schools and learned a trade.

• Indians could own and farm 160 acres of their own land.

• Indians learned English and could gain the right to vote.

• Indians saw the survival of their traditional cultures threatened.

According to the federal government, what was the objective of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• to grant immediate and full citizenship rights to Native Americans

• to move Native Americans into the cities to supply industrial labor

• to encourage assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream American culture

• to restore lands to the Native Americans tribes that had lost lands to white settlers

by breaking down the picture, what term is the picture depicting?

• manifest destiny

• homestead act

• dawes act

• transcontinental railroad

Linked east and west; created markets!; created economic boom

• barbed wire

• transcontinental railroad

• telegraph

• steamboats