U.S. History Unit 1 Test

What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?

• The Homestead Act

• The Interstate Commerce Act

• The Dawes Act

• The American Indian Citizenship Act

This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

• The American Indian Citizenship Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Meat Inspection Act

This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Steamboat

• The Stagecoach

• The Aeroplane

What precious metal was found in California in 1848, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?

• Platinum

• Coal

• Silver

• Gold

How did the arrival of settlers change the Great Plains?

• Shift from hunting to farming

• Increase of the white settlers in the West

• Expansion of railroads and the rise of new towns

• All of the Above

Assimilation is the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of another group or nation.

• True

• False

This law gave out land in the West for cheap prices.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

What is the correct word for the definition below?

when people move from one country to another

• immigration

• urbanization

• industrialization

• reservation

This picture shows an ___________ area.

• farming

• industrial

• rural

• reservation

The growth of cities is called ____________________.

• industrialization

• immigration

• Westward Expansion

• urbanization