Western Expansion EOC Review

Western Expansion EOC Review

By Kevin Greene

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Multiple Choice

How did the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 encourage settlement of the American West?

• The railroad led to new discoveries of precious metals.

• The railroad required immense quantities of of coal to build.

• The railroads made it easier for ranchers and farmers to ship goods back east.

• The railroad frightened Indian tribes, who retreated to reservations.

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following was the main reason that the federal government created a method for Native Americans to become US citizens?

• To reduce the amount of money spent supporting Native Americans

• To undermine the legal basis of the treaties made with Native American tribes

• To encourage Native Americans to assimilate into mainstream society

• To guarantee that Native Americans enjoyed constitutionally protected civil rights.

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Multiple Choice

What effect did the Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad have on the American frontier?

• Clashes erupted between farmers and ranchers over land.

• African Americans flooded to the west because of cheap land.

• Many mining towns became “ghost towns.

• The population of Plains Indians declined over time.

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Multiple Choice

The cartoon was made regarding Western Expansion. What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• Federal Indian agents assisted Native Americans with growing crops on reservations

• Native Americans went hungry while Federal Indian agents grew wealthy

• The Federal government supplied Native Americans with good land

• The livestock raised on reservations were diseased and poisoned

Multiple Choice

“We have been taught to hunt and live on the game. You tell us that we must learn to farm, live in one house, and take on your ways. Suppose the people living beyond the great sea should come and tell you that you must stop farming, and kill your cattle and take your houses and lands, what would you do? Would you not fight them?”

--Gall, a Hunkpapa Sioux Indian, quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

What was Gall’s view of future relations between the Plains Indians and the settlers?

• peaceful coexistence

• mutual respect

• further conflict

• equality