Tensions in the West

What common trait was shared by different Indian cultures?

• They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.

• They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.

• They are preferred to live on reservations.

• They all viewed nature as sacred.

Which of the following acts of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?

• the Morrill Land Grant Act

• the Homestead Act

• the Indian Removal Act

• the Dawes Act

These immigrants were tasked with the most dangerous jobs during railroad construction.

• Irish

• Italian

• Klingon

• Chinese

After the railroad was construction the US was divided into ___ time zones.

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

"Exoduster" was a name given to:

• Former slaves who left the South for better treatment and opportunity in the West

• Klansmen who wanted to scare black voters

• Republican candidates who ran for office in the South during reconstruction

• laws that regulated the labor of freemen

A cowboy that came from Mexico with the Spanish during the 1500s

• Sitting Bull

• vigilante

• buffalo soldier

• vaquero

Land set aside by the U.S. Government for Native American tribes

• boomtown

• Great Plains

• reservation

• frontier

An 1887 law that gave Indian Reservation land to individual owners. Destroyed traditional way of life for Indians.

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Gettysburg Address

A railroad line that connected the East and West coast of the U.S.A.

• The eastern railway service

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The East-West railroad line

Which of the following TWO railroad companies combined to create the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Union Pacific

• Northern Pacific

• Southern Pacific

• Central Pacific