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Reporting Category 2: Virginia and United States History, 1865 to 1914
Quick questions on The closing of the frontier and American Indians - Virginia and US History SOL VUS.8
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What are the railroads?Show answer
The transcontinental railroad, completed in 1869, linked East and West and let settlers, goods, cattle, and crops move across the continent. Railroads received huge land grants to build.
What is the Homestead Act?Show answer
It offered settlers up to 160 acres of public land for a small fee if they lived on and farmed it for five years, drawing waves of farmers (including immigrants and formerly enslaved "Exodusters") onto the Plains.
What is q1?Show answer
State the main purpose of the Homestead Act (1862). [1]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain how the destruction of the bison affected Plains Indians. [2]
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