Native Americans
What is the name of an area set aside where Native Americans have to live?
A) Internment camps
B) Resignations
C) Reservations
D) Resolutions
What was the name of the railroad that connected the eastern and western United States?
A) Transcendental railroad
B) Transconnection railroad
C) Transcontinental railroad
D) Transcongruent railroad
What is the name of a crop grown or sold for cash?
A) Cash crop
B) Cash plant
C) Money crop
D) Greenbacks
Which of the following limited the civil rights of southern blacks?
A) The Civil Rights Act of 1875
B) The Farmer's Alliance
C) Local and state laws
D) The Voting Law of 1875
A system of ranching in which cattle were branded and allowed to graze freely on the plains is....
A) Open round
B) Open west
C) Open range
D) Open grounds
What was the name of the place where U.S. troops killed Chief Sitting Bull along with over 100 Indians?
A) Little Big Horn
B) Battle of Cold Hill
C) Trail of Tears
D) Wounded Knee
How did the Transcontinental Railroad affect the U.S.?
A) It slowed the development of industry
B) The nation shrank in size
C) The population of the West increased
D) Native Americans lived in peace with the settlers
What was the name of the law that gave land, to citizens who stayed on their property for 5 years and made improvements to the land?
A) Squatter Act
B) Homestead Act
C) Homebound Act
D) Homeboy Act
What was the purpose of the Farmer's Alliance?
A) To organize southern farmers
B) To destroy boll weevils
C) To start textile factories
D) To help farmers live free
How did American settlement in the West impact Native Americans?
A) Native Americans gave up hunting and became farmers
B) Native Americans built reservations where they could live without interference
C) Native Americans became wealthy
D) Native Americans were forced from their homelands
What was the name of the place where, chiefs Sitting Bulls and Crazy Horse, led 2,000 Natives to defeat George Custer and all of his 250 men?
A) Little Big Thorn
B) Little Big Horn
C) Wounded Knee
D) Little Big Battle
Which of these statements is true?
A) Railroads spurred the growth of industry, but hurt population growth
B) Railroads were an impediment to the progress of the U.S.
C) Railroads helped the growth of the cotton industry
D) Railroads spurred the growth of industry and the growth of the population
What does it mean to become similar to other people in a culture or group?
A) Accommodate
B) Actuate
C) Adapt
D) Assimilate
During Reconstruction, most farmers in the South...
A) moved to the North
B) raised cotton or tobacco
C) raised food crops
D) Lost their land
What were the lives of most homesteaders like, in the West of the late 1800s?
A) Young and wild and free
B) Dank
C) Busy with social duties
D) Hard and lonely
Which of these statements is true?
A) Native Americans lived mostly on the Great Plains
B) Native American groups shared some characteristics and did not share others
C) Hunting was not important for Native Americans
D) Fishing was not important for Native Americans
How did railroads affect the cattle ranching industry?
A) Ranchers had a way to transport meat to markets in the East
B) Eastern cowboys traveled to the West
C) Cowboys found an easier way to travel between work and home
D) It created the steel boom
The Second Industrial Revolution coincided with revolutions in...
A) Transpiration and sanitation
B) Medicine and plumbing
C) Transportation and sanitation
D) Transportation and clothing
What do you call a self-appointed law enforcer?
A) Batman
B) Outlaw
C) Vigilando
D) Vigilante
What effect did mining have on the West?
A) It made westerners wealthy
B) Miners built pleasant, charming towns near the mines
C) It attracted huge numbers of people to the region
D) It stopped progress from occurring in industry
Which of these Native American tribes used irrigation in farming?
A) Navajo
B) Calusa
C) Sioux
D) Pueblo
What was the name of the law giving black Americans the right to ride trains and use other public services?
A) Civil Rights Act of 1875
B) Civil Rights Act of 1860
C) Desegregation Act
D) The TCR Bill
Politics during the Gilded Age is known for...
A) Kindness
B) Effectiveness
C) Innovation
D) Corruption
Who coined the term "Gilded Age"?
A) Jacob Riis
B) Andrew Carnegie
C) Chester A. Arthur
D) Mark Twain
What were the 3 main occupations of western settlers?
A) Taco stand guy, ranching, farming
B) Mining, farming, ranching
C) Mining, farming, law enforcement
D) Farming, ranching, cowboy