Settling on the Great Plains

​ (a)   : helped allow more people to migrate to the Great Plains

​ (b)   : company that was laying tracks east from Sacramento, California

​ (c)   : company that was laying track west, from Omaha, Nebraska

​ (d)   : point where two rail routes met, finishing America's first transcontinental railroad

​ (e)   : many of the workers on the railroad were from this group

• transcontinental railroad
• Central Pacific
• Union Pacific
• Promontory, Utah
• immigrants

​ (a)   :1862 law where the government would offer 160 acres of free land to anyone who would farm it for five years

​ (b)   :African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas

​ (c)   : along with miners, claimed much of the land not used under the Homestead Act

​ (d)   : Location of a major land giveaway in 1889

​ (e)   : Place in Wyoming where the government set aside land in an act to preserve some wilderness

• Homestead Act
• exodusters
• Cattlemen
• Oklahoma
• Yellowstone

From 1850 to 1900, the number of people living west of the ​ (a)   increase from 1 percent of the nation's population to 30 percent.

• Mississippi River
• Missouri River
• Ohio River
• Rio Grande

One effect of the transcontinental railroad and government acts was that the population in the west ​ (a)   between 1850 and 1900.

• increased
• decreased
• stayed the same

__ : homes that were dug into the side of hills or made from sod

​ (a)   : helped break up the prairie's tough soil

​ (b)   : cut wheat faster

​ (c)   : two acts which helped establish agricultural colleges and to experiment and develop new types of crops and growing techniques​

​ (d)   : farm that were huge, single-crop farms

• steel plow
• reaper
• Morrill Act
• bonanza
• telegraph
• canal
• Homestead Act
• Freedman's Act

Put the events in order from the latest to most recent

• Transcontinental railroad is finished

• Homestead Act is passed

• Yellowstone National Park is created

• Great Plains is filled with more than 400,000 homesteaders

• Central Pacific and Union Pacific start laying railroad tracks

Which happened first:

• Oklahoma has 2 million acres of land claimed in 24 hours

• Another Morrill Act helps in establishing experiment stations on the Great Plains

The government and the railroads encouraged settlement of the West by

• Creating a transcontinental railroad which made it easier to travel to the West

• passing acts which encouraged western settlment

• recruiting Europeans to settle on the land

• creating 15 more states in the West

• providing cheap housing in the West

​ (a)   Offered 160 acres of free land to anyone who would farm it for five years

​ (b)   helped establish agricultural colleges

​​ (c)   First national park , established in 1872

• Homestead Act
• Morrill Act
• Yellowstone