Chapters 2 and 3- SS (8th Grade)

What is the Homestead Act?

• A law that provided free housing to all U.S. citizens.
• A program that offered financial aid to farmers in Europe.
• A treaty that established land ownership rights in Canada.
• The Homestead Act is a law that granted land to settlers in the U.S. in 1862.

What was used to make flour for bread ?

• Rice

• Oat

• Wheat

• Corn

What made it easier for people to travel out West?

• railroads

• cars

• California Gold Rush
• buses

Who lived on the reservations?

• European settlers
• African Americans
• Asian immigrants
• Native Americans

What was great about the land on the Great Plains?

• The land was mostly rocky and barren.
• The climate was too wet for farming.
• The area was primarily urban and industrial.
• The land on the Great Plains was dry and good for farming.

The Native Americans were forced to live on reservations, what are reservations?

• Reservations are luxury hotels for tourists.
• Reservations are public parks for recreational use.
• Reservations are military bases for soldiers.
• Reservations are areas of land set aside for Native American tribes by the U.S. government.

What invention was needed to cut through the heavy soil of the Midwest?

• transcontinental railroad 
• barbed wire
• mechanical reaper
• steel plow

This gave 160 acres of land for free to anyone willing to work on the land, build a house and live on the land for 5 years

• The Trail of Tears

• The Homestead Act

• The union Pacific RR company

• Prospectors

Where are the Philippines?

• In South America
• In the Caribbean Sea
• In the Arctic Ocean
• Pacific islands located in Southeast Asia, in the western Pacific Ocean.

What was the battleship Maine?

• The battleship Maine was a U.S. Navy ship that sank in 1898, sparking the Spanish-American War.
• A U.S. Navy submarine that sank in 1901.
• A Spanish battleship that fought in the Caribbean.
• A famous World War II aircraft carrier.