Standard 12 Review

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 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

The Homestead Act was when the United States gave away ___________ to settlers.

• lumber to build houses

• plots of land

• seeds to grow crops

• wagons to travel out west

What was the overall purpose of the Homestead Act?

• Encourage people to migrate westward

• To spread people out more

• To keep people in the same place

• To make everyone leave

True or False: If people were unable to complete the requirements in the 5 year span, the land went back to the government?

• True

• False

Vocabulary Review: The Homestead Act....

• Gave 160 acre plots of land to American settlers

• Gave 160 acre plots of land to Native American families

• Gave plots of unassigned land to anyone wanting tribal land in Oklahoma, as long as they were willing to race for it

• Gave reservation land to Native Americans

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

The primary goal of manifest destiny was to

• secession of southern states from the nation

• removal of European influence from South America

• end slavery in the new territories

• expansion westward to the Pacific Ocean