Farmer Issues

The ____________________ act was a government policy that placed Natives on reservations and forced them to Americanize in order to receive U.S. citizenship.

• Dawes

• Chinese Exclusion

• Homestead

• Interstate Commerce

The Wounded Knee massacre led to the slaughter of over 200 unarmed Sioux men, women and children that will end the wars between the government and the Great Plain Indians.

• True

• False

The vast grasslands of the Great Plains led to a booming _____________________ industry that created a need for the cowboy to drive the herd northward to the railroad lines.

• Homestead

• Barb Wire

• Cattle

• Urbanization

The ______________________ act encouraged expansion in the West by giving any citizen 160 acres of land if they could improve it by growing crops for a span of five years. 

• Dawes

• Interstate Commerce

• Sherman Antitrust

• Homestead

____________________ effects during the Gilded Age led to overcrowding, lack of public services such as garbage collection, clean water and public schools. 

• Nativists

• Political Corruption

• Urbanization

• Electricity

The __________________________ act of 1887 prohibited unfair practices by railroads during the Gilded Age.

• Homestead

• Sherman Antitrust

• Interstate Commerce

• Dawes

Many Chinese and Irish immigrants labored over the construction of the ______________________________ that will unite the county to create a national market. 

• Homestead

• Urbanization

• Cattle Drive

• Transcontinental Railroad

 An important principle of the Constitution is the division of powers between the federal and state governments known as ____________________________.

• Federalism

• Civil Responsibilities

• 10th Amendment

• Communism

One important value in America’s success as a democracy is the idea of __________________ in where the common people can participate in their government. 

• Liberty

• Populism

• Egalitarian

• Laissez Faire

Attempt to assimilate Native Americans is to the Dawes Act

    As resulted in settling the frontier is to ________

• Homestead Act

• Irish Immigrants

• Light Bulb

• Checks and Balances