US History-Unit 1

The railroads were funded by loans and _____________.

• Land Grants

• Stock

• Buffalo Hides

• More Workers

Why did the government want the Transcontinental Railroad built?

• To move prisoners west

• To encourage westward expansion

• To defeat Mexico

• To make peace with the Native Americans

The Homestead Act required people to farm on land for _____ years to get _______ acres for free.

• 10 years, 50 acres

• 1 year, 80 acres

• 7 years, 180 acres

• 5 years, 160 acres

What happened at Custer's Last Stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Custer killed all of the Lakota Indians.
• Custer and Sitting Bull made an agreement that the Native Americans Could have their land.
• Custer was killed, along with his entire force.

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

What act gave 160 acres to any family who would live on the land and farm it for 5 years?

• The Homestead Promise
• The Homestead Neighborhood
• The Homestead Act of 1862
• The Homestead farmland

The transcontinental railroad ______

• connected east and west
• connected north and south

who led the Indians in Little Bighorn?

• geronimo
• sitting bull and crazy horse
• pocahontas
• Custer

What Indian tribe was Sitting Bull a member of?

• Lakota

• Pawnee

• Sioux

• Cherokee