What did the 'Golden Spike' event symbolize?

• The end of the Civil War
• The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
• The passage of the Homestead Act
• The opening of Ellis Island

Which groups made up the majority of Transcontinental Railroad laborers?

• Chinese and Irish immigrants
• African Americans and Italians
• Women and children
• Native Americans and Germans

Why was the Transcontinental Railroad significant?

• It ended Reconstruction
• It united the East and West coasts and boosted trade
• It outlawed slavery
• It created the Supreme Court

Why did the Republican Party create the Homestead Act?

• To provide land for free to encourage western settlement
• To end the Civil War
• To expand slavery
• To regulate banks

What were the requirements of the Homestead Act?

• Work on land for 5 years
• Pay a small fee and farm the land
• Both A and B
• Serve in the military

The Great Plains after the Homestead Act became:

• Unchanged wilderness
• Heavily settled farmland
• Abandoned territory
• Native American reservation land

Which law created agricultural and technical colleges?

• Homestead Act
• Morrill Land Grant Act
• Pacific Railway Act
• Pendleton Act

Which law gave land to railroad companies to build the transcontinental railroad?

• Homestead Act
• Pacific Railway Act
• Morrill Land Grant Act
• Credit Mobilier Act

What was the nickname given to Great Plains settlers under the Homestead Act?

• Forty-Niners
• Sodbusters
• Exodusters
• Buffalo Soldiers

What was the purpose of the reservation system?

• To allow Native Americans free farming land
• To restrict Native Americans to specific lands
• To give citizenship to Native Americans
• To create trade with Native Americans