The Impact of Westward Expansion (SSUSH12)

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Multiple Choice

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

• Cowboys moving cattle to the market.

• Immigrants working to construct the transcontinental railroad.

• American Indians building the new highway system.

• African Americans setting up telegraph lines.

Multiple Choice

“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 eradication of the buffalo on the Great Plains

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

• 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.

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

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