Native Americans Westward Expansion

What gave settlers 160 acres of land in exchange for the settlers "improving" their new land?

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

What took land from Indian tribes and promoted assimilation?

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

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

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation

Federal land set aside for Native Americans

• Reservation
• Vigilantes
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Gold standard

an attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members

• Sand Creek massacre
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Civil service
• Homestead Act

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

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