Lesson: Transcontinental/Native Americans

Transcontinental/Native Americans

Standard 4

Multiple Choice

Which of the following fostered the development of a national market by linking all parts of the country between 1840-1900?

• highways

• railroads

• radio

• electricity

Multiple Choice

In the period from 1865 to 1900, the United States Government aided the development of the West by

• maintaining free and unlimited coinage of silver

• offering low-interest loans to businesses

• granting land to railroad companies

• providing price supports for farm products

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the government's influence on railroads in the West?

• The Western landscape should be preserved for free use by all the people

• Legislation and government subsidies were created to develop a national market

• The West mirrored European values and social patterns creating small isolated towns

• The development of an expansive railroad system hindered the growth of the United States

Multiple Choice

Which was a major result of the Homestead Act of 1862?

• decreased conflicts between Native American Indians and white settlers

• increase public awareness of the need for conservation of natural resources

• increased development of Western lands

• decreased economic opportunities for easterners.

Multiple Choice

An African American who left the South because of discrimination and poverty and headed west.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Exoduster

• sodbuster

Multiple Choice

A term which means to extend borders of the U.S. from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast.

• Manifest Destiny

• "Nits Make Lice"

• Travois

• Migration

Multiple Choice

During the mid 1800s, how did the federal government encourage the settlement of the West?

• provide forty acres of land and a mule to formerly enslaved persons

• provide free land to people who would create a home there

• provide mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver

• provide land to companies to build transcontinental railroads

Multiple Choice

Read the list below.

- The Homestead Act

- Mass killing of buffalo

- Completion of the transcontinental railroad

What are the above MOST CLOSELY associated with?

• building of the Erie Canal

• northern migration of African Americans

• decline of the Plains Indians

• rise of organized labor

Multiple Choice

In the late 1800s, what was the goal of the federal government’s policy toward

Native Americans?

• to stop racial discrimination

• to encourage Native Americans to vote

• to help them become productive citizens in society

• to make them assimilate, so taking their land would be easier

Multiple Choice

What was the last event of the Indian Wars?

• Dakatoa Uprising

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

Multiple Choice

What major impact did the expansion of western railroad systems have on Native Americans?

• Native Americans were forced off tribal lands and onto reservations set up by the federal government

• Native Americans began to profit from employment and investment opportunities

• The Transcontinental Railroad went south to avoid disturbing Native American hunting grounds

• The location of railroad routes caused many Native Americans to migrate to big cities in the Midwest