Unit 1: The Rise of Industrialization

What was the main purpose of the Homestead Act?

• to bring an end to cattle drives
• to encourage settlement on the Great Plains
• to build the Transcontinental Railroad
• to provide a market for steel plows

The process where one person or group blends and becomes part of a larger group

• cultural diffusion

• amalgamation

• assimilation

• cultural absorption

All of the following were effects of the government's policies on Native Americans EXCEPT:

• Native Americans were moved to reservations.

• Native Americans died from new diseases and starvation.

• Native Americans were paid well for their land.

• Native Americans were stripped of their culture due to assimilation.

The Homestead Act:

• Encouraged westward settlement

• Granted 160 acres to every head of household

• Created Native Tension

• was an act which granted land to Natives

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

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

• north and south

• north and west

• east and west

• east and south

What does transcontinental mean?

• to travel across a continent

• to travel north and south

• to travel from one continent to another continent

• to travel to transport goods

How did the Transcontinental Railroad create conflict between Native Americans and railroad workers?

• The railroad was built in the middle of native lands and was destroying it.

• The railroad kept them from migrating.

• The workers started fighting with them.

• Native Americans didn't like trains.

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad

• To make China powerful

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

• To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation

• To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America

This was the nickname for the system of segregation that arose in the South after the end of Reconstruction.

• Redlining

• Jim Crow laws

• Sharecropping laws

• Black Codes