Chapter 18 Review Group B

Which president signed the Homestead Act?

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

What law said for a very small fee, each citizen could get 160 acres of land west of the Mississippi River?

• Homestead Act

• Transcontinental Railroad Act

• Dawes Act

• 13th Amendment

What was built in order for food, people, and supplies to travel quicker and more safely across the United States?

• Union Pacific

• Central Pacific

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Airplanes

Where did the Central Pacific Railroad Company start?

• California

• Wyoming

• Utah

• Montana

Where did the Union Pacific start building?

• California

• Montana

• Nebraska

• Missouri

What two companies built the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Trans Pacific and Union Pacific

• Central Pacific and Union Pacific

• Central Pacific and Trans Pacific

Where did the two railroads meet?

• California

• Nebraska

• Promontory Point, Utah

• Missouri

What did the Central Pacific company have to tunnel through?

• Dirt

• Mountains

• Rocks

Which railroad company had to face the Native American tribes as they were building the railroad?

• Central Pacific

• Union Pacific

• Transcontinental Railroad

What were the people called who snuck in early to claim land during the Great Land Rush in Oklahoma?

• Land rushers

• Sooners

• Early risers