How did the Homestead Act encourage people to move into the American West?
American History: Key Events and Concepts

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KEITH WALTER
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Built free housing along established railroad tracks.
Granted 160 acres to persons who lived and worked the land.
Family plots were given away by a random drawing.
Settlers were encouraged to build log cabins in western territories.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The era of the 1920's was known as...
The Roaring 20s
The Prohibition Era
The Jazz Age
All of the above
3.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Click the countries that fought on the side of the Central Powers during World War One.
Great Britain
Ottoman Empire
Russia
Germany
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The incident that brought America to war with Spain was...
Explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor.
THe attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.
THe sinking of the British luxury liner Lusitania.
Attack on American military base in Manilla Bay.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the Dawes Act force Native Americans to do?
Send their children to boarding schools
Move to 'Indian Territory'
Established the reservation system
Vote in federal elections
6.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Check all that are TRUE about the Panama Canal:
Connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Completed the project after the French were unable to.
Functioned effectively for 50 years.
Is no longer under American control.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The typewriter, elevator and bicycle are all associated with which historical age?
Westward Expansion
Gilded Age
World War One
1920's
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