Expansion Test Review Sheet
1. What did the transcontinental railroad connect? – Chapter 13 Section 1
2. How did Samuel Morse start a communications revolution? – Chapter 13 Section 1
3. What did critics of industrialists refer to them as in the late 1800s? – Chapter 13 Section 2
4. What were working conditions like in factories of the late 1800s? – Chapter 13 Section 3
5. How did the federal government respond to large strikes? – Chapter 13 Section 4
6. What did the Homestead Act of 1862 offer settlers? – Chapter 14 Section 1
7. Why did many settlers feel they had a right to western lands? – Chapter 14 Section 2
8. What was the significance of the Battle of Little Bighorn? – Chapter 14 Section 2
9. Why were western farmers able to survive? – Chapter 14 Section 3
10. What did the Populists fight for? – Chapter 14 Section 4
ESSAY
Describe the difference of how Native Americans and white settlers viewed land ownership.