US History and Constitution UNIT 3 Part 5

Question 1

Congress passed the Forest Reserve Act authorizing the president to close timber areas to settlement and create national forests by withdrawing the land from the public domain

Answer 1

The Closure of the Frontier

Question 2

an act provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. It mattered because it accelerated settlement of U.S. western territory by allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land

Answer 2

Homestead Act

Question 3

A railroad that spanned the length of the United states, it opened up transportation across the country and paved the way for mass settling of the west.

Answer 3

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 4

A battle between the U.S. army and Native Americans because of a broken treaty (Second Treaty of Fort Laramie). Was one of the worst battles in the yes of US History, because of the embarrassing defeat.

Answer 4

Battle of Little Bighorn

Question 5

A law that authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.An explicit goal of the Dawes Act was to create divisions among Native Americans and eliminate the social cohesion of tribes.

Answer 5

Dawes Act

Question 6

The killing of around 300 Native American peoples at the hands of us soldiers. It resulted in the end of native american conflict with white settlers.

Answer 6

Massacre at Wounded Knee

Question 7

An act that set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”

Answer 7

Morill Act

Question 8

was established during the 19th century to aid weather forecasting and train travel. The standard time in each time zone has come to be defined as an offset from Universal Time.

Answer 8

Standard Time Zones

Question 9

The large-scale black migration from the South to Kansas. Benjamin “Pap” Singleton-American activist and businessman-encouraged his people to move to Kansas where they would be able to purchase land and establish a better life.

Answer 9

Exodusters

Question 10

Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

Answer 10

Sharecropping

Question 11

Those who went west during the 1849 California gold rush in hopes of wealth via gold.

Answer 11

49ers

Question 12

Created by Henry Ford, first used in the Ford Motor Company

Answer 12

The Assembly Line

Question 13

An argument to upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to ten hours.

Answer 13

Muller v. Oregon

Question 14

Edison’s invention of the first practical light bulb in 1879. His growth with J.P. Morgan made his inventions rapidly spread all over the US.

Answer 14

Electrical Power

Question 15

used to build railroads with. Any industry who held this steel or made it, made loads of money over the years.

Answer 15

Bessemer Steel

Question 16

A type of code where letters and numbers are represented in the form of audible or visible cues in short or long signals. It was a big leap in communication allowing for long distance communication almost instantaneously

Answer 16

Morse Code

Question 17

Used in electrical wiring since the invention of the electromagnet and the telegraph.

Answer 17

Copper Wiring