Westward and Gilded Age

Which area in America was gold found in that gave people all over the world "gold fever" in 1848?

• Texas
• Louisiana
• Oregon
• California

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Polluted the air and the natural environment
• All of the above

What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?

• Homestead Act
• Morril Act
• Dawes Act
• Reconstruction Act

What gave settlers 160 acres of land in exchange for the settlers "improving" their new land?

• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Morril Act
• Reconstruction Act

What did the Homestead Act offer?

• a new home for travelers

• a stop along the Oregon Trail

• free land after 5 years of living on it.

The transcontinental railroad ______

• connected east and west
• connected north and south

As settlers moved onto the Great Plains in the 1800s, they needed to build shelters. One way that many settlers met this need was by building sod houses. Why did many settlers build houses made out of sod?

• Sod houses would typically last longer than houses made out of other materials.
• Sod houses cost little to build because sod was widely available.
• Sod houses were more fashionable than other types of buildings
• Sod houses were better suited for cold weather than other buildings.

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation