USII.4A Westward Expansion & Native Americans

After the Gold Rush of 1849, people dreamed of a faster, cheaper, and safer way to  travel west. What new technology of the 1800s made this dream a reality?

• Pony Express
• Stagecoach
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Wagon trains 

What most likely attracted the people in this 
picture to this place? 

• The promise of jobs
• Free land offered by the Homestead Act of 1862
• Freedom from Indian attacks
• Freedom from slavery

Which Native American leader defeated the US Army at Little Bighorn?

• Sitting Bull
• Geronimo
• Chief Joseph
• Big Foot

Which Native American leader said, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

• Chief Joseph
• Geronimo
• Big Foot
• Sitting Bull

 Westward expansion had the most negative effect on which group of people?  

• European immigrants
• American Indians
• Southern farmers
• African Americans

What is the process in which a group makes 
changes to become
part of the 
mainstream American culture? 

• Conversion
• Acceptance 
• Assimilation 
• Nativism

What result of the
Indian Wars forever
changed life for the 
American Indians?

• Reservations
• Settlement Houses
• Slavery
• Communes

Which event marked
 the end of the conflicts with American Indians? 

• Plight of the Nez Perce
• Battle of Wounded Knee
• Battle of Wabash
• Battle of Little Bighorn

George Armstrong
Custer and the 7th
Cavalry were defeated at the —  

• Battle of Wounded Knee
• Battle of Fallen Timber
• Battle of Wabash
• Battle of Little Bighorn

Where would copper 
and lead have been 
transported in the late 1800s?  

• Steel mills in Pittsburgh
• England
• Eastern factories 
• Southern plantations