Unit 10 Assessment - Westward Expansion After the Civil War

Which statement is accurate about industry and agriculture after the Civil War?

• The Plains states attracted industrial laborers to factory jobs.
• The Northeast continued to dominate the nation in manufacturing.
• The South attracted homesteaders and immigrants to farming.
• The South failed to diversity in agriculture.

The intent of the Dawes Act was to

• weaken the Plains Indians

• assimilate Native Americans

• anger Native Amricans

• take away Native

  American lands

The way of life shown in the photograph will be most impacted by

• assimilation policies of the government.
• movement from rural to urban areas.
• increasing numbers of tribes on the frontier.
• changes in beliefs among generations.

Which conclusion can best be drawn from the picture?

• Plains Indians followed the migrating herds of buffalo for hundreds of miles.
• Transcontinental railroads allowed Americans to see the wild animals of the West.
• Railroads were built along the same paths as telegraph lines for convenience.
• Buffalo caused problems for the railroads so they paid for them to be destroyed.

What was a result of the practice shown in the photograph?

• Processing hides became a major national industry.
• New technology led to mass production.
• The Plains Indians culture was severely damaged.
• Railroads refused to ship the hides to eastern factories.

The image above is most likely meant to represent the

• Battle of Little Big Horn.
• Massacre at Wounded Knee.
• Battle of the Buffalo Soldiers.
• Sand Creek Massacre.

Which law was passed to accomplish the aims described above?

• Dawes Act
• Homestead Act
• Bland-Allison Act
• Indian Commission Act

Which sentence from the passage best defines assimilation?

• The new policy focused specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans.
• Federal Indian policy during the period from 1870 to 1900 marked a departure from earlier policies that were dominated by removal, treaties, reservations, and even war.
• Very sincere individuals reasoned that if a person adopted white clothing and ways, and was responsible for his own farm, he would gradually drop his Indian-ness...
• It would then no longer be necessary for the government to oversee Indian welfare in the paternalistic [fatherly] way it had been obligated to do…

Based on the excerpt, what is Jackson’s purpose in writing A Century of Dishonor?

• to build up the myth of noble, savage Indians on the Plains
• to describe the types of diseases suffered by Indians
• to explain why Indians wanted to live on reservations
• to expose the poor treatment of Indians by white authorities

Which Sioux medicine man led his tribe to resist forced relocation to reservations?

• Geronimo
• Crazy Horse
• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph