U.S. Fall Semester Review

What technology revolutionized farming in the west? 

• Steel plows, mechanical reapers, and windmills
• Morse code
• Internet
• Hydroelectricity

What did the Homestead Act of 1861 allow settlers to do?

• Go to war with Native Americans
• Own the land that they settled on after 5 years
• Establish the sharecropping system
• Make peace with the Native Americans

What animal impacted the building of the railroads, and was also essential to the Native Americans way of life?

• Snakes
• Mountain lions
• Bison
• Locusts

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How did the transcontinental railroad change the economy of the United States?

• It transported agricultural products to processing centers and helped major industries such as flour milling and meat processing develop in cities like Chicago. 
• It transported people to the cities to work in factories. 
• It transported Native Americans to the west. 
•  It transported raw materials to build factories in the west. 

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Why were many Americans moving out West?

• To be with their families 
• Better weather conditions
• Good, cheap farmland

What are the three Reconstruction Amendments?

• Added to the  Constitution after the Civil War 13.Free, 14.Citizens, 15.Vote
• Amendments that ended Slavery
• Amendments that were added after the American Revolution
• Lincoln issued these amendments after he got assassinated. 

What was the Dawes Act?

• Broke up Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

• Broke up natives Sacajawea and Clark

• Broke up Native American reservations, resulting in loss of land

• forced relocation of native Americans

When the government gave free federal land west of the Mississippi River, increased settelment

• Househome Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dawes Act

• Homestead act

The  purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to

• increase the number of Chinese immigrants coming into the US
• ban Chinese immigrants into the US.

A major cause of antagonism toward the “new immigrants” who came to the United States after 1880 was the belief that they...

• were better educated than native-born Americans
• had a higher standard of living than most Americans
• adapted easily to American culture
• competed with Americans for jobs as unskilled laborers

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