The Homestead Act
The minimum number of years a citizen had to settle and farm a 160-acre plot to be awarded the full title.
A) Three years
B) Five years
C) Seven years
D) Ten years
B) Five years
The transcontinental railroad companies linked their tracks at this location in 1869.
A) Kansas
B) Texas
C) California
D) Utah
D) Utah
Many African American families left the South after the Civil War to move west in search of this.
A) Gold
B) Freedom and land
C) Mining jobs
D) Ranch work only
B) Freedom and land
The Pennsylvania school established to remove tribal culture from Native American children and teach white culture.
A) Fort Marion School
B) Carlisle Indian Industrial School
C) Seneca Falls Academy
D) Nicodemus Institute
B) Carlisle Indian Industrial School
She led the first women's rights convention in 1848 and authored the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.
A) Lucretia Mott
B) Susan Dimond
C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D) Judewin
C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The physical size of the plot of land typically awarded to any U.S. citizen under the 1862 act.
A) 40 acres
B) 100 acres
C) 160 acres
D) 640 acres
C) 160 acres
Railroads helped western towns grow quickly because they allowed people to do this with goods and cattle.
A) Trade and sell them
B) Hide them
C) Destroy them
D) Only store them
A) Trade and sell them
The name given to the 25,000 migrants who moved westward searching for land of their own.
A) Unionists
B) Sooners
C) Exodusters
D) Forty-niners
C) Exodusters
At some schools, Native American children were forced to cut their hair and wear new clothes to do this.
A) Become more like white settlers
B) Learn farming
C) Run errands
D) Travel west
A) Become more like white settlers
The supervisor of education in Massachusetts known as the "father of American public schools."
A) Fredrick Douglass
B) Horace Mann
C) Frank Fletcher
D) Lucretia Mott
B) Horace Mann
Settlers could get free land under the Homestead Act if they built a home and did this with the land for several years.
A) Planted crops
B) Fenced it
C) Sold it
D) Ignored it
A) Planted crops
This immigrant labor group was prohibited from naturalization and faced harsh violence while building the railroad.
A) Irish
B) German
C) Chinese
D) Italian
C) Chinese
The primary destination state that promised land and safety to migrants escaping the post-war South.
A) Oklahoma
B) Kansas
C) Missouri
D) Texas
B) Kansas
Within some Native American tribes short hair was worn only by who?
A) Warriors
B) Mourners
C) Leaders
D) Discoverers
B) Mourners
The abolitionist leader who published the anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star."
A) Horace Mann
B) George Custer
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Richard Pratt
C) Frederick Douglass
An applicant was required to be the head of a family or have reached this minimum age.
A) 18
B) 21
C) 25
D) 30
B) 21
Cowboys drove large herds of cattle along trails to these towns where trains could take the cattle to markets.
A) Mining camps
B) Railroad towns
C) Military forts
D) Homesteads
B) Railroad towns
Families moving west faced this type of difficulty on the journey, like storms and lack of water.
A) Natural challenges
B) Bank robberies
C) Pirates
D) Earthquakes only
A) Natural challenges
The discovery of this resource in the Black Hills in 1875 directly led to military invasion and conflict.
A) Silver
B) Oil
C) Gold
D) Coal
C) Gold
To fund better schools and teacher salaries, Massachusetts citizens responded to Horace Mann by voting to do this.
A) Claim land
B) Pay taxes
C) Sell cattle
D) Move West
B) Pay taxes
This addition to the Constitution guaranteed U.S. citizenship to freedpeople, making land claims possible for them.
A) Bill of Rights
B) 13th Amendment
C) 14th Amendment
D) 15th Amendment
C) 14th Amendment
The government gave railroads this to encourage them to build tracks across the country.
A) Soldiers
B) Money and land
C) Free cattle
D) Towns
B) Money and land
When Exodusters settled in the West, they built these places for worship and education.
A) Churches and schools
B) Hotels and stores
C) Banks and courthouses
D) Farms only
A) Churches and schools
These two Sioux and Cheyenne leaders resisted U.S. efforts to confine their people to reservations.
A) Custer & Pratt
B) Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse
C) Smith & Hill
D) Fletcher & Mann
B) Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse
The document presenting social and political equality resolutions for women at the 1848 Seneca Falls convention.
A) Declaration of Independence
B) 14th Amendment
C) Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
D) Homestead Act
C) Declaration of Rights and Sentiments