1 Fundamental: Land Settlement Act

Question 1

Which ordinance provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest?

Answer 1

The Land Ordinance of 1785

Question 2

Which act provided 160 acres of land to settlers for a fee of $18 and a guarantee of five years of residence.

Answer 2

In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act

Question 3

Which act provided the President of the United States with the power to create forest preserves by proclamation?

Answer 3

In 1891, the General Land Law Revision Act was passed by Congress

Question 4

Which act which allowed the Secretary of the Interior to manage forest preserves?

Answer 4

In 1897, Congress passed the Forest Management Act

Question 5

Which act allowed the funds raised from the sale of public land in arid states to be used to construct water storage and irrigation systems?

Answer 5

In 1902, the U.S. Reclamation Act

Question 6

Who appointed a Public Lands Commission to propose rules for land development and management?

Answer 6

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt

Question 7

Which law to provide federal protection for archaeological sites?

Answer 7

In 1906, the Antiquities Act

Question 8

Which administration developed the Greenbelt towns?

Answer 8

In 1935, the Resettlement Administration was formed to carry out experiments in population resettlement and land reform

Question 9

Which act guaranteed home loans to veterans.? The result was the rapid development of suburbs.

Answer 9

In 1944, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (The GI Bill).