The Impact of Westward Expansion (SSUSH12)

Multiple Choice

With which US policy or principle was the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad MOST associated?

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  American Exceptionalism

• Isolationism
• The Monroe Doctrine
• Manifest Destiny

Multiple Choice

Which statement correctly describes the people and event referenced in the excerpt above from 1869?

• Cowboys moving cattle to the market.

• American Indians building the new highway system.

• African Americans setting up telegraph lines.

• Immigrants working to construct the transcontinental railroad .

Multiple Choice

As settlers moved west after the Civil War, they came up with new tools to make the land easier to cultivate. Tools such as barbed wire and new kinds of plows made farming in the west possible.

What unintended consequence did this have on the population of the West?

• It made the West the richest area in the country.

• It made the population become mostly former Southerners.

• It harmed the Plains Indians by driving away migrating buffalo.

• It killed many Plains Indians as new settlers brought new diseases.

Multiple Choice

Read the quote below.

“With my cavalry and combined artillery encamped in front, I wanted no other occupation in life than to ward off the savage and kill off his food until there should no longer be an Indian Frontier in our beautiful country.” Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, 1869

Which event was the MOST immediate result of the American government's response to the Plains Indians' resistance to western expansion of the United States?

• the increase of the number of Plains Indians living in Canada

• the eradication of the buffalo on the Great Plains

• the success of the Ghost Dance religious revival movement among the Plains Indians

• the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 and the deaths of most of the Plains Indians fighters at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

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Multiple Choice

Over a quarter million Plains Indians lived freely in 1845. By the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee there were no American Indians living freely on the plains. What was the main underlying reason for this change?

• Plains Indians were viewed as an obstacle to western expansion by the US government and white Americans.

• Plains Indians starved because they were not familiar with advanced farming techniques.

• Plains Indians were eager to give up their traditional lifestyle and assimilate into East Coast cities.

• Plains Indians killed each other off in inter-tribal wars.

Multiple Choice

After the Civil War, what was the MAIN reason for the relocation of American Indians to reservations?

• The federal government wanted to preserve tribal cultures.

• Most of the tribal chiefs requested government protection from white settlers.

• Settlers, ranchers, and prospectors wanted their tribal lands.

• The American Indians had violated their treaties with the federal government.

Open Ended

Explain how the U.S. government's policies affected the daily lives and cultural practices of Plains Indians after they were moved to reservations.