The Gilded Age: Westward Expansion

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 assimilation or "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.

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

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

• creating a system of dams for crop irrigation

• providing land for to settlers on the great plains for low or no cost.

• removing all restrictions on immigration

• Moving Native American Indians to reservations

The meat packing industry grew because?

• barbed wire, millions of cattle, cities wanted beef

• westward expansion, british cattle, vegetarians

• demand for fish, alaska becoming a state, pancakes

The Homestead Act of 1862 required farmers to?

• build a home, live there and improve the land

• hunt buffalo

• start a business

• move to wisconsin

Farmers adapted to life on the plains by?

• making sod homes of grass and mud

• building factories

• making a new type of cow

• finding cheaper workers

3) What was the economic impact of the Transcontinental railroad?

• It made shipping farmer's goods and traveling across the country cheaper

• Conflicts with the Native Americans increased

• The US government made millions from the Homestead Act

• It caused a decrease in taxes on big business

7) In Urbanization: the people of the United States population was moving from the _ country to the _ country parts of the country.

• urban; rural

• rural; urban