Which statement best explains how railroad pools worked?

Owners agreed to divide up the business in a given region.

Which statement best explains how railroads affected the economy of the United States following the Civil War?

Companies created thousands of jobs and pioneered new business practices.

Which statement explains how railroad rebates worked?

Railroad owners gave secret discounts to their biggest customers.

How did the Homestead Act encourage people to move west?

It offered free land to those willing to farm it.

Why was the Dawes Act of 1887 unsuccessful?

The act ignored the traditional Native American views of land ownership.

Which government promise was not honored in the Fort Laramie Treaty?

Plains Indians who stayed in a limited area could keep those lands forever.

How did news of the Comstock Lode affect the West?

Thousands of prospectors migrated in search of gold and silver.

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Westward Expansion Test Review

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1
Which advance made a network of railroad lines possible?
a standard gauge
the air brake
the convertible berth
the dining car
2
What was the silver strike in the Sierra Nevada, named after the miner who had first claim to it?
The Klondike Gold Rush
Vaquero
Comstock Lode
The Gold Rush
3
The demand for beef __________________________ as growing cities in the East and miners and railroad crews in the West.
increased
stayed the same
decreased
4
Which statement best explains how railroad pools worked?
Owners agreed to divide up the business in a given region.
Owners gave secret discounts to their biggest customers.
Owners fixed fares for shipping goods at the highest possible level.
Owners dramatically reduced fares for all their customers.
5
Which statement best explains how railroads affected the economy of the United States following the Civil War?
Companies received rebates that allowed small rail companies to survive.
Companies’ unfair practices caused a general depression in the late 1860s.
Companies created thousands of jobs and pioneered new business practices.
Companies created monopolies that stalled the building of new tracks.
6
Which statement explains how railroad rebates worked?
Railroad owners gave secret discounts to their biggest customers.
Railroad owners agreed to divide up the business in a given region.
Owners fixed fares for shipping goods at the highest possible level.
Railroad owners reduced fares for low-income customers.
7
When was the first transcontinental railroad is completed?
1887
1914
1879
1869
8
How did the Homestead Act encourage people to move west?
It offered free land to those willing to farm it.
It set up reservations for freed African Americans.
It offered land to gold prospectors.
It promised protection from Native Americans.
9
Why was the Dawes Act of 1887 unsuccessful?
White settlers were unwilling to sell land for the creation of reservations
The act ignored the traditional Native American views of land ownership.
The act gave too much power to Native American leaders.
Native Americans wanted to resettle on reservations.
10
What is a railway that stretches across a continent from coast to coast called?
The Westinghouse
Pullman car
Transatlantic Railroad
Trancontinental Railroad
11
What year did the Dawes Act encourage Native Americans to become farmers?
1903
1869
1877
1887
12
Which government promise was not honored in the Fort Laramie Treaty?
Plains Indians who took up mining would be allowed to prospect for gold.
Plains Indians who stayed in a limited area could keep those lands forever.
Plains Indians who took up farming would be given agricultural tools.
Plains Indians would be given money that they could use to buy goods.
13
Many cowhands on the cattle drives were ___________ who taught settlers how to properly handle cattle.
vaqueros
ranchers
miners
railroad owners
14
These provided places to conduct business, keep cattle, and enjoy social activities.
Pullman car
cow towns
Deadwood
the ranch
15
How did news of the Comstock Lode affect the West?
Thousands of prospectors migrated in search of gold and silver.
Individual miners claimed most of the West’s land.
Silver rapidly lost its value in the West because there was so much of it.
Many Native Americans in the West grew wealthy from silver mining.

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