Topic 3- West/Gilded Age

One result of the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 includes —

• The building of large urban centers

• A rush to grab free public land in the Great Plains

• An influx of Chinese immigrants to California

What is the name of the act attempted to destroy the Native Indians culture through assimilation?

• Homestead Act (Land)

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

Which of the following factors contributed to the demise of the open-range system?

• The use of sod for houses
• The invention of barbed wire
• The development of railroads
• The disappearance of big mining companies

How did Congress support construction of the transcontinental railroad?

• By providing vigilantes
• By promoting an open-range system
• By providing land grants
• By passing the Homestead Act

What term describes the thought that Americans had the right to expand our influence from the Atlantic to the Pacific due to our advanced culture?

• Manifest Destiny
• Gilded Age
• Progressivism
• Reconstruction

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

What began to happen to Native Americans living in the west after the Civil War?

• The United States government began to move them onto reservations using the military.

• The United States government left them alone to live in peace.

• They moved back to the east to take back their ancestral lands.

What two immigrant groups built the transcontinental railroad?

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

What role did the discovery of gold play in the expansion of the United States?

• The discovery of gold convinced settlers to move across the Appalachian Mountains into the Midwest.
• The discovery of gold attracted settlers to western areas that later became states.
• The discovery of gold led to the development of new types of technology.   
• The discovery of gold made many people rich enough to buy large ranches in Texas.

How did the movement of people to the West impact economic development in the East?

• The movement of people to the West allowed access to raw materials needed by factories in the East.
• Pioneers who had moved to the West provided money to expand cities in the East.
• Ranchers and miners who had moved to the West provided jobs for people living
  in the East.
• The movement of people to the West convinced many immigrants to move to cities in the East.