TEKS Quiz 1: Westward Expansion

Match

Match the term with the definition

• Goal: assimilation of Native Americans

• Goal: Settlement of the western frontier

• Goal: lower railroad shipping rates

• Goal: Satisfy nativist demands in the West

Dawes Act

Homestead Act

Interstate Commerce Act

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Categorize

Options (5)

Government gave 160 acres of free land to settlers

Led to faster and cheaper travel and trade between the East and West

Encouraged farming in the Great Plains

Led to settlement in the West

Created a national economy and opened new markets

Match the characteristics with the correct developments.

Homestead Act (2)

Transcontinental Railroad (2)

Both (1)

Multiple Select

Which of these responses describes the Dawes Act? Choose 2.

• It was part of a federal policy to assimilate Native Americans

• It broke up tribal lands into smaller plots for farming

• It guaranteed citizenship for Native Americans

• It mandated the hunting of buffalo.

Multiple Select

What is true of the Chinese Exclusion Act? Choose 2 correct answers.

• It was favored by nativists.

• It was a reaction to job competition in the western U.S.

• It encouraged immigrants to assimilate into American society.

• It gave equal rights to Chinese immigrants.

Drag and Drop

The ​

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political party believed that the ​

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should intervene in the economy to protect the common people. ​ Members of this party supported using the ​

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to regulate unfair railroad shipping prices. They also hoped change currency policy by coining​

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. They hoped this would increase ​

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prices, which had declined due to overproduction.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

Populist

government

Interstate Commerce Act

silver

crop

Dawes Act

gold