Gilded Age West Lesson 1: Motivations

Gilded Age Westward Expansion

Lesson 1: Motivations and Native American Experience

 

SS.912.A.3.1 : Analyze the economic challenges to American farmers and farmers’ responses to these challenges in the mid to late 1800s. 

SS.912.A.2.7: Review the Native American experience. 

Multiple Choice

Mining towns that had rapid growth from hundreds to thousands were known as

• Funtowns
• ghosttowns 
• boomtowns
• gloomtowns

Multiple Choice

Public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle is called....

• open range
• open land
• open plains
• open house

Multiple Choice

Which of the following contributed MOST to the end of the open range?

• Steel Fencing

• Native American warfare

• Barbed wire

• Razor Fencing

Multiple Choice

What was the overall purpose of the Homestead Act?

• Encourage people to migrate westward

• To spread people out more

• To keep people in the same place

• To make everyone leave

Multiple Choice

The vocabulary term associated with African American who moved west.

• relocation

• reservations

• assimilation

• exodusters

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of Nativism?

• The Open Door Note

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Pacific Railway Act

Multiple Choice

Based on slides 23-28, is the following statement True or False?

The United States government often used military force when Native Americans resisted.

• Ture

• False

Open Ended

Exit Ticket: Answer BOTH questions using 3-4 complete sentences for each.

1) Explain at least two factors that motivated westward expansion after the Civil War.

2) Explain two negative effects westward expansion had on Native Americans.