The West

Railroad owners wanted more people to settle on the Great Plains because...

• farmers would use the railroads to ship products to markets in the cities
• they needed more people to build railroad tracks
• they needed sharecroppers to farm the land owned by the railroads
• settlers would grow cotton and ship it to the south

Which group lost the most from the building of the railroads?

• Settlers
• Western citizens
• The government
• Native Americans

The ____________________ made it easier to travel, communicate, and trade. 

• Comstock Lode
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Vigilantes
• Chinese Exclusion Act

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

• north and south

• north and west

• east and west

• east and south

Who played a significant role in the construction of the Central Pacific track of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• European immigrants

• Chinese immigrants

• American Indians

• Spanish missionaries

What took land from Native American 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

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

Promised settlers cheap land (160 acres) if they settled or improved the land. Increased westward expansion

• Homestead Act

• Reservation System

• Populist Party

• Dawes Act

The primary goal of manifest destiny was

• End slavery in the new territories
• removal of European influence from South America
• expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean
• secession of southern states from the nation