| A | B |
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| What motivated migration into California? | gold rush (1849) |
| What motivated migration into Nevada? | silver mines--Comstock Lode |
| Which act was passed to promote farming on the Great Plains? | Homestead Act (1862) |
| What was established by the Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)? | colleges and universities |
| Which groups of people labored to build the transcontinental railroads? | immigrants (Irish & Chinese) |
| What internal improvement linked western farms and ranches to eastern cities? | transcontinental railroad |
| What was significant about the meeting of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad lines at Promontory Point, Utah (1869)? | completion of the transcontinental railroad |
| How did cattlemen bring Texas longhorns to railroad shipping centers? | cattle drives |
| What invention ended the era of open range and cattle drives? | barbed wire |
| What resource did the nomadic lifestyle of the Plains Indians depend on? | buffalo |
| Where did the government force tribes to live to remove Indians from lands desired by new settlers? | reservations |
| Which battle resulted in a victory by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors over General George Armstrong Custer? | Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| What resource did the nomadic lifestyle of the Plains Indians depend on? | Buffalo |
| Where did the federal government force tribes to live to remove them from lands desired by white settlers? | reservations |
| Which battle resulted in a victory by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors over General George Armstrong Custer? | Battle of Little Bighorn |
| List examples of American Indian leaders that resisted being forced onto reservations. | Sitting Bull (Sioux), Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) |
| Which reformer brought attention to the injustices done against the American Indians? | Helen Hunt Jackson ( A century of dishonor) |
| Which battle was the last conflict between the government and American Indians? | Wounded Knee (1890) |
| What act divided Indian lands to begin the policy of assimilation? | Dawes Severalty Act |
| What federal Indian policy was begun under the Dawes Act? | assimilation/ "Americanization" |
