Unit 3 History

How did reformers hope the Dawes Act would encourage assimilation of Native Americans?

• The Dawes Act forbade Native Americans from speaking their tribal languages and created schools to teach English to Native American children.

• The Dawes Act ended tribal landholding and encouraged economic assimilation by making Native Americans private land owners.

• The Dawes Act gave each Native American family a land grant that allowed them to leave the economic isolation of the reservation.

• The Dawes Act established programs to help Native Americans learn about the dress and customs of white American society.

What caused changes in the demographic patterns of Native Americans?

• the transcontinental railroad

• the destruction of buffalo herds

• the forced migration to reservations

• the promises in treaties that were not kept

What factor negatively affected open range cattle ranching?

• The price of beef dropped due to oversupply.

• The number of cowboys dropped due to low pay.

• Heavy rains and flooding wiped out many major ranches

• Attacks by Native Americans made open range ranching too risky.

The Great Northern Railway was more successful than the Northern Pacific Railroad due to

• government funding.

• immigrant labor.

• low fares.

• transportation of goods.

Which invention was used primarily in the cattle industry?

• barbed wire

• grain drill

• plow

• windmill

How did the Homestead Act contribute to the expansion of western settlement?

• How did the Homestead Act contribute to the expansion of western settlement?

  
  

• by granting farm plots to people willing to live on the land for five years

• by granting white settlers ownership of Mexican American land

• by encouraging more white migration by prohibiting Chinese immigrants

How did Chinese immigrants contribute to the opening of the West?

• by working mostly as cowboys on the open range

• by helping to build the transcontinental railroads

• by lobbying for passage of the Homestead Act

• by introducing improved agricultural technology

Why did many farmers go into debt in the late 1800s?

• They took out loans to invest in new industries because agriculture was declining.

• They took loans out to diversify their crops because consumers demanded new varieties of produce.

• They took out loans to build roads to bring their produce to distant cities.

• They took out loans on the value of their farms to pay the increased costs for new machines and other supplies