Unit 3 Quiz #2 (Terms 11-20, 2.2 & 2.3) USH

Match the following terms to their definitions!

• a frontier home usually dug into a hill or made from sod

• Soddy

• Enormous single-crop spreads of 15,000+ acres, created by railroad companies to earn profits

• Homestead Act

• Provided 160 acres of free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it.

• Exoduster

• an African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years

• Morrill Acts

• gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges

• Bonanza Farms

Match the following terms to their definitions!

• an association formed by farmers in the last 1800s to make life better for farmers

• The Grange

• groups of farmers who sent people form town to town to educate others on rural issues

• Bimetallism

• political ideology that supports the common people over the privileged elite

• Populism

• Using both gold and silver as a basis for a national monetary system

• Gold Standard

• A monetary system where paper money and coins are equal to the value of gold

• Farmers' Alliances

What percentage of the homestead land was ACTUALLY settled by the people it was meant for?

• 90% or more

• 50%

• 25%

• 10%

Which of the following rapidly expanded farmers' efficiency in their ability to grow crops? (PICK TWO!)

• Railroads

• Farming tools like the plow and reaper

• State funding for agriculture from the Morrill Acts

• A growing demand for wheat and grain

• 10 years of harvest-friendly weather

According to Frederick Jackson Turner, what made the frontier significant in American culture?

• It shaped the unique American spirit

• It proved Americans were conquerors and warriors

• It had vital resources and wealth America needed to grow

• It gave Americans a place to expand to

Which of the following was an immediate EFFECT of bonanza farms?

• People were better fed

• Farmers went into debt because they couldn't compete

• Natives gained more return from selling their land

• Railroads lost their influence over the West