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Lesson: Transcontinental/Native Americans

Lesson: Transcontinental/Native Americans

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42 Slides • 11 Questions

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Transcontinental/Native Americans

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Multiple Choice

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

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highways

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railroads

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radio

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electricity

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Multiple Choice

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

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maintaining free and unlimited coinage of silver

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offering low-interest loans to businesses

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granting land to railroad companies

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providing price supports for farm products

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Multiple Choice

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

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

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Legislation and government subsidies were created to develop a national market

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

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

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Multiple Choice

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

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decreased conflicts between Native American Indians and white settlers

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increase public awareness of the need for conservation of natural resources

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increased development of Western lands

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decreased economic opportunities for easterners.

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Multiple Choice

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

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Dawes Act

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Homestead Act

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Exoduster

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sodbuster

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Multiple Choice

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

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Manifest Destiny

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"Nits Make Lice"

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Travois

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Migration

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

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

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provide free land to people who would create a home there

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provide mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver

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provide land to companies to build transcontinental railroads

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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?

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building of the Erie Canal

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northern migration of African Americans

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decline of the Plains Indians

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rise of organized labor

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Multiple Choice

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

Native Americans?

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to stop racial discrimination

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to encourage Native Americans to vote

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to help them become productive citizens in society

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

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Multiple Choice

What was the last event of the Indian Wars?

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Dakatoa Uprising

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Sand Creek Massacre

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Little Bighorn

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Wounded Knee

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

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

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Native Americans began to profit from employment and investment opportunities

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

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

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