Westward Expansion

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What piece of legislation distributed free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?

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The Homestead Act

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This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

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The Dawes Act

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What invention limited the "open range" and led to the decline of the cowboys' importance?

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Barbed Wire

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This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.

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The Transcontinental Railroad

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The 13th Amendment gave African American males the right to vote.

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False

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Did General Phillip Sheridan believe that a way to end the Native American way of life was by exterminating the buffalo?

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True

Front

What precious metal was found in California in 1848, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?

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Gold

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General Custer was defeated in the Battle of Little Bighorn by Crazy Horse and...

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Sitting Bull

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How did the arrival of settlers change the Great Plains?

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Shift from hunting to farming, Increase of the white settlers in the West, Expansion of railroads and the rise of new towns

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Assimilation is the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of another group or nation. True or False?

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True