Urbanization, Western Expansion, & Barons

How did the government encourage the railroad companies to build?

• giving land grants and money

• signing the Homestead Act

• annexing Alaska

How did the transcontinental railroad impact the US?

• it destroyed the Native American's way of life

• settlement of the frontier increased

• trade around the nation expands

• all of the above

During Reconstruction cattle raising

• declined

• was tried for the first time in Texas

• developed into a major industry

• died out in the West

The herding of cattle from Texas to the railroad is known as the

• openrange

• cow town

• long drive

• boom town

The cowboys main job was to

• build sod houses

• move cattle north

• farm the open range

• be a vigilante

Which are had Sod houses and barbed wire fences ?

• the mountains of the west

• the open range

• Great Plains

• Native American Reservations

This gave 160 acres of land for free to anyone willing to work the land for 5 years

• The Trail of Tears

• The Homestead Act

• The union Pacific RR company

• Prospectors

In order to settle the West the government broke its promise to

• Homesteaders

• Prospectors

• Sod Busters

• Native Americans

Why did many Native Americans not like the white settlers?

• they killed their buffalo

• they broke promises and treaties

• they took their land

• All of the above

The _________________ destroyed the Native American's way of life.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• open range

• lack of wood

• purchase of Alaska