Westward Expansion in the Gilded Age

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

What is happening in this photo?

• The Civil War is being ended

• Transcontinental railroad is being finished

• Transcontinental railroad is being started

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

3) What were the effects of the Transcontinental Railroad? (Pick TWO)

• It allowed for the rise of the steel industry

• It connected the United States by rail from east coast to west coast

• It lead to increased the population in western cities

• The population in urban centers grew drastically

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

When government does not interfere with the economy

• Populism
• Communism
• Socialism
• Laissez Faire

A business with no competition is a...

• Holding company
• Capitalist company
• Utility company
• Monopoly

Which time period featured the growth of industry -- along with widespread poverty & poor working/living conditions?

• The Gilded Age
• The Age of Imperialism
• The Roaring 20s
• The Great Depression