American History Final Exam Spring 2023

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

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

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

At first, ranchers saw barbed wire as a threat because it

• harmed their cattle

• kept their herds from roaming freely

• required much effort to maintain

• prevented cattle from finding food

This man controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D Rockefeller
• JP Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

This man owned Standard Oil and controlled most of the oil industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John D Rockefeller
• JP Morgan

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Polluted the air and the natural environment
• All of the above

What two immigrant groups built the transcontinental railroad?

• Chinese and Scotish
• Chinese and Irish
• Irish and German
• Japanese and Irish

How did the development of the railroad impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east

A island in New York harbor that was the chief immigration station in the United States from 1892-1924.

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Staten Island

• Cumberland Island