US History: Unit 3 Test Review

Which act provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it?

• Homestead Act

• Pacific Railroad Act

• General Allotment Act

• Indian Reorganization Act

What was the nickname given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas?

• Exodusters

• Vaqueros

• Reservations

• Assimilation

Which act authorized the construction of the first transcontinental railroad connecting the east and west coasts?

• Homestead Act

• Pacific Railroad Act

• General Allotment Act

• Indian Reorganization Act

What is the term used to describe cowboys that were Mexican and were ranching in North America?

• Exodusters

• Vaqueros

• Reservations

• Assimilation

What is the term for an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States?

• Exodusters

• Vaqueros

• Reservations

• Assimilation

What is the term for a series of conflicts in the western United States between Native Americans, American settlers, and the U.S. Army?

• Exodusters

• Vaqueros

• Reservations

• American Indian Wars

What is the term for the process in which a minority group adopts the culture, language, and behaviors of the dominant culture group?

• Exodusters

• Vaqueros

• Reservations

• Assimilation

Which U.S. law provided for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man's image?

• Homestead Act

• Pacific Railroad Act

• General Allotment Act

• Indian Reorganization Act

What is the term for the measure created by the U.S Congress aimed at decreasing the federal control of American Indian affairs and increasing Indian self-government and responsibility?

• Exodusters

• Vaqueros

• Indian Reorganization Act

• Assimilation

Which act severely limited the number of Chinese who could immigrate to the United States?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907-1908

• Immigration Restriction League

• Yellow-Dog Contracts