Moving West

|A law that gave settlers 160 acres of land

• homesteaders

• drought

• Homestead Act

What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?

• Homestead Act
• Morril Act
• Dawes Act
• Reconstruction Act

How long did you have to farm the land to keep it under the Homestead act?

• 1
• 5
• 10

The transcontinental railroad ______

• connected east and west
• connected north and south

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation

The Great Plains is _________of the Mississippi River.

• East
• South
• West
• North

What is evidence of the mistreatment of Native Americans?

• Dawes Act
• Sod Houses
• Long Drive
• all answers

Native Americans were forced to move to ___________.

• central time zone

• reservations

• Dakota Territory

• Canada

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