Cultures Clash on the Prairie
The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..
offered free land to those willing to farm it.
What is the top layer of prairie soil called?
sod
As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans?
They were forced to live in reservations.
Populist sought to have a typical work day last____hours.
8 hours
Land granted to a settler by the US government is called...
Homestead
Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet many of their basic needs?
Buffalo
Which of the best describes the Chinese Exclusion Act?
the first US law to restrict immigration based on race and nationality
_____________________ signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862.
Abraham Lincoln
How did railroads help with trade and economic growth?
rovided a fast way to get crops and animals to the markets
Could women secure a grant in their own names?
Yes women could own land
What event was happening when the Homestead Act was passed
Civil War
Which group of people were negatively affected by the Homestead Act
Native Americans
Apache tribal member who raided settlements in the Southwest and was the last "hostile Indian" to surrender.
Geronimo
In 1882, Congress passed an "exclusion act" which prevented the immigration of workers from what country for 10 years?
China
Which of the following statements best describes the idea of Manifest Destiny?
The United States should stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What did the Populist Party want the nation's currency based on?
Gold & Silver
Sturdy cattle accustomed to dry grasslands ?
longhorn
What linked Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California?
The Transcontinental Railroad
Most farmers on the Great Plains grew ___________ because it could endure the dry conditions
Wheat
What happened at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Custer and his men are killed.
Which individual was on the WINNING side of the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Sitting Bull
The California Gold Rush, the Homestead Act, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad all...
encouraged westward settlement.
What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?
Dawes Act
When the mines ran out in Boom-towns and the people moved on it often created ____________
Ghost towns
came to the West from Asia in hopes of earning money to send back to their families.
Chinese Immigrants