The West and Gilded Age Review

This was the idea that the US was destined to spread from the east coast to the west coast.

• Imperialism

• Manifest Destiny

• Monroe Doctrine

• Isolationism

The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to ____

• promote cultural assimilation of American Indians

• turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmland

• end warfare between American indians the US Military

• promote American indian investment in private industry

This new invention closed the frontier and ended cattle drives

• Railroads

• Steel Plow

• Windmill

• Barbed Wire

The process described above led to__

• peaceful resolutions of terrirorial disputes with American Indians

• the establishment of agricultural communities on the American frontier

• federal regulation of agriculture

• a decline in immigration to urban areas

What gave us faster travel, created time zones, and improved communication?

• The Great White Fleet

• Railroads

• The Pony Express

• Wagon Trains

Who were the exodusters?

• A Native American tribe located near the Great Lakes

• Slaves that were returned to the south after they fled to the north

• Immigrants that came to the United States from Europe

• Former slaves who moved from the south to Kansas to become share croppers

The word "plight" means________________?

• Struggle

• Performance

• Easy

• Plow

The first Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Point, Utah, and was built by which two groups of immigrants?

• Chinese and Germans

• Irish and Chinese

• Japanese and Irish

• Japanese and French

What were two inventions that helped the farmers on the Great Plains?

• The lightbulb and the loom

• The typewriter and mechanical reaper

• The bessemer process and assembly line

• The windmill and steel plow

What was the name of the Gold Strike in Alaska?

• Pike's Peak

• Klondike Gold Rush

• Comestock Load

• Sutter's Mill