WESTWARD EXPANSION REVIEW

By 1851, the U.S. Government began restricting or moving Native Americans to what?

• playgrounds

• reservations

• territories

• new western states

TRUE OR FALSE: Manifest Destiny was the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In 1862, the ________ was passed where the government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live there for 5 years, dig a well and build a road.

• Home Acts

• Farm Acts

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

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

• Hawley Act

• Dawes Act

• The Anti-trust Act

• Bland-Allison Act

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

• Erie Canal

• Southern Railway

• Transcontinental Railroad

• East-West Highway

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

• assimilation

• congregation

• cultural diffusion

• prejudice

What is one example of the US government's forced assimilation of Native Americans?

• Native American Wars

• Native American schools

• Killing of the Buffalo

• Transcontinental Railroad

Which statement best explains what the Dawes Act did?

• it took tribal lands from Native Americans, cut them into family-sized parcels, and sold leftover land to whites

• it put bounties on buffalo, with the goal of starving the Native Americans

• it gave free land to white settlers

• it allowed the railroads to build on private land

Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president that doubled the U.S size.

• Northwest Territory

• Texas Annexation

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Territory

Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?

• The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.

• Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.

• Railroads allowed People to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.

• Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.