American History Final Review #1

What act gave 160 acres to any family who would live on the land and farm it for 5 years?

• The Homestead Promise
• The Homestead Neighborhood
• The Homestead Act of 1862
• The Homestead farmland

Who made a plow that could handle the job of tearing through the sob of the Great Plains?

• Henry Ford
• John Deere
• Jack Smith

Which religious group went West to escape religious persecution?

• Jews
• Mormons
• Jehovah's Witness
• Buddhist

The Chinese and Irish immigrants were responsible for...

• completing the Trans. RR
• completing the Chisholm Tr.
• completing the ghost dance
• completing the puzzle

What act motivated many people to move to new lands in the west?

• Jayhawker Act

• Homestead Act

• Free Land Act

• Indian Removal Act

This was created to allow Americans to travel quickly across the country.  Businesses were able to expand their markets across the country, and towns sprouted up across the country along these lines

• Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Express Railroad

As a result of the Spanish- American War, the US became a political power in

• The Hawaiian Islands

• Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

• Samoa

• Panama

The belief that the United States was destined to control the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific is best described as _________________.

• Protestant Reformation

• Gilded Age

• Manifest Destiny

• The Crusades

The Temperance Movement sought to eliminate -

• Juvenile Prisons
• Consumption of alcohol
• Child labor

In the 1840s, Seneca Falls, New York, became the scene of an important convention for -

• women's rights
• labor union organization
• temperance reform
• prison reforms