Quiz #3: Expansion and Industrialization

Which legislation regulated railroad prices across multiple states?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Morrill Act

Which legislation funded agricultural colleges to improve farming education in western states?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Morrill Act

Which group was forced to attend boarding schools and abandon their culture?

• Western Farmers

• Innovative Inventors

• Railroad Workers

• American Indians

Which legislation divided tribal lands and distributed them to individual American Indians?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Morrill Act

Through Americanization, many American Indians _______ their Native American culture.

• abandoned

• continued

• celebrated

• studied

One of Alexander Graham Bell's innovations were _____.

• railroads

• light bulbs

• automobiles

• telephones

Which legislation provided cheap land to settlers during westward expansion?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Morrill Act

What was one purpose of the transcontinental railroad?

• to connect Canada and Mexico

• to transport slaves to freedom

• to aid in developing western territories

• to replace waterways

What organization was formed to help farmers?

• Farmers Alliance

• Knights of Labor

• Agriculture Assembly

• National Grange

What did the U.S. government use to restrict American Indian land?

• Reservation System

• Plantation System

• Sharecropping System

• Boarding Schools