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Unit 3 ID Quiz

Authored by Ryan Martinsen

Social Studies

7th Grade

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Unit 3 ID Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

As the United States expanded westward, there was an increasing need to improve transportation between the coasts. The eastern states already had a developed network of railroads. In 1862, Congress authorized plans for a __________, reaching all the way to California.

Transcontinental Railroad

Indian Reservation

Homestead Act

Ghost Town

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Mining towns formed in areas where gold or silver was found. Prospectors, or people looking for gold or silver, moved in. This trend caused a population boom. These settlements came to be called _________.

Indian Reservations

Boom Towns

Ghost Towns

Homesteads

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Mining towns formed in areas where gold or silver was found. Prospectors, or people looking for gold or silver, moved in. However, if the gold or silver in the area ran out, people left these towns. These empty settlements became __________.

Boom Towns

Ghost Towns

Indian Reservations

Homesteads

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Under the terms of this act, anyone who was older than 21 or was the head of a household could file a claim for a land grant. These applicants had to work the land (an area of 160 acres) and live on it for five years. They were able to buy land for $1.25 an acre. After five years, they could pay a registration fee and apply for the deed to the land.

Boom Towns

Homestead Act

Transcontinental Railroad

Dawes Severalty Act

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

An area of land that has been set aside for native people. Many of them forced native people to move far from their homelands to land that was often of poor quality. For example, the land was often too wet or too dry for farming or was on steep or rocky territory.

Homestead

Boom Town

Ghost Town

Indian Reservation

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Under the terms of this law, the government would grant each Native American individual or family an area of land that they must farm for a minimum of 25 years. In return, they would become U.S. citizens. Any remaining land would be sold. This had disastrous effects on the Plains Indians, who found it difficult to adapt their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to subsistence farming. Many were cheated out of their land, and the reservations fell into squalor. Although designed to benefit the Native Americans, the act actually benefitted white settlers, who acquired much of the land.

Homestead Act

Dawes Severalty Act

Assimilation

Indian Reservation

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The process of one distinct culture taking on the cultural traits of another. Usually, the less dominant culture takes on the traits of the dominant culture, meaning the one in control.

Horizontal Integration

Vertical Integration

Assimilation

Nativism

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