Unit 3 Spiral Review #2

What was name of the government program that provided 160 acres of land in return for the improvement of the land, the government hoped this program would escalate the settlement of the West?

• Frontier Development Program
• Settlement Act
• Homestead Act
• Land Grant Act

What federal legislation provided government support/aid for the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century?

• Pacific Railway Act of 1862
• Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862
• Railroad Regulation Act of 1877
• Homestead Act of 1862

Which of the following was used by the federal government to help finance and promote the construction of the transcontinental railroad during the 19th century?

• Government ownership of the railroads

• Legislation making slave labor available for railroad construction

• Land grants and subsidies to the railroad companies

• None of these

What group of African Americans migrated westward after the Civil War, often to locations like Kansas, to seek a new life away from the South?

• Exodusters
• Pioneers
• Okies

• Mormons

What persecuted religious group migrated West to the Great Salt Lake in Utah?

• Baptists
• Catholics
• Quakers
• Mormons

Which immigrant group was highly recruited to construct the transcontinental railroad in the West?

• Italian immigrants
• German immigrants
• Chinese immigrants
• Irish immigrants

What is the term for the lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government?

• Homelands
• Settlements
• Reservations
• Colonies

The American destruction of what animal crippled and caused the decline of the Great Plains Native Americans in the late 19th century?

• buffalo
• elk
• moose

• deer

What was the Native American battle in which the Sioux massacred the Colonel Custer's 5th Cavalry, increasing the tense relationship between the Native Americans and American military?

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Battle of Yorktown

What legislation passed by the federal government forced the assimilation of the Native Americans through the breaking up of the reservations and the establishment of citizenship of the Native Americans?

• Indian Reorganization Act
• Homestead Act
• Treaty of Fort Laramie
• Dawes Act