WorksheetsFarming and Populism
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Exodusters
Ex-Confederates who went west
Ex-Slaves who went west
Chinese railroad workers
Irish railroad workers
Homestead Act
Kept people home instead of heading west
Caused people to return to Europe
Was vetoed by Lincoln
Gave people 160 acres if they lived there 5 years
Who was the Populist/Democratic candidate for President?
Andrew Jackson
Grover Cleveland
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
Who did the National Grange help?
Farmers
Miners
Bankers
Loggers
What was a goal of the National Grange?
fix railroad shipping rates
fix suffrage
fix discrimination
fix child labor
What were most homes on the Great Plains built out of?
Bricks
Bedrock
Wood
Sod
What political group grew out of the Grange Organization?
Democrats
Republicans
Populists
Independents
I am an Exoduster and I chose to move west in hopes of finally owning land. I was also trying to escape the KKK.
European Immigrants
Asian Immigrants
Mexican Americans
African Americans
deflation
increase in prices
decrease in prices
What does the Morrill land Grant Act and the Homestead Act have in common
They provided ways for settlers to acquire western land
forced Native Americans onto reservations
discriminated against African American families
enabled railroad companies to develop the land near tracks
The ________________ was a law in 1860 that offered acres of land to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for 5 years.
Dawes Act
Meeting at Promontory Point
Homestead Act
boom town
Name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much thick soil, called sod, to farm
transcontinental
extinct
sodbuster
railhead
___ was a new method of farming that shifted the focus away from water-dependent crops such as corn
Subsistence farming
Commercial farming
Arable farming
Dry farming
An unexplored, uninhabited land is called ...
a frontier
a homestead
outerspace
the west
Many farmers blamed businesspeople, especially _____ for making money at their expense
politicians
railroad owners
Indians
cattle drivers
