Westward Expansion

What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?

• Hayes Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Bland-Allison Act
• Dawes Act

What was built to connect the east coast with the west coast?

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Eire Canal
• Panama Canal
• Southern Railroad

What were the lands where Native Americans were forced to live called?

• Reservations
• Compounds
• Concentration Camps
• Summer Camp

What battle was a major victory for the Sioux against General Custer?

• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Battle of Tippacanoe
• Battle of Fallen Timbers
• Battle of Horseshoe Bend

What was the last armed conflict to take place between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army?

• The Battle of Tippecanoe
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Wounded Knee
• The Battle of Little Big Horn

Gold rush that took place in the Yukon Region

• Silverton
• Sutter’s Mill
• Ohio Springs
• Klondike

What term describes the idea of being absorbed into a larger culture?

• assimilation
• convergence
• prejudice
• cultural diffusion

Name the leaders of the Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Crazy Horse
• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

What is one example of US governments assimilation of Native Americans?

• Native American schools
• killing the buffalo
• Native American Wars
• Massacre at Wounded Knee

The law that tried to force Native Americans into white culture in 1887 was called the

• Dawes Severalty Act
• Enforcement Acts
• Indian Removal Act
• Tribal Readjustment Act