US History: Westward Expansion

He opposed American westward expansion and defeated the Custer and the American army at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

• Sitting Bull

• Chief Joseph

• Geronimo

• Custer

Westward expansion had the most negative effect on which group of people?

• European immigrants
• African Americans
• Southern farmers
• American Indians

What is the process in which a group makes changes or modifications to become part of the mainstream American culture?

• Conversion

• Acceptance

• Assimilation

• Americanism

land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans

• Homesteads

• frontier

• reservations

• Manifest Destiny

An incident that led to the slaughter of Native Americans and symbolized an end to the Indian Wars

• Manifest Destiny

• Custer's Last Stand

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Massacre at Wounded Knee

An Indian religious movement called _________ predicted the return of the buffalo herds & the disappearance of white settlers.

• Christianity

• Ghost Dance

• Manifest Destiny

• Wolf Dance

|A law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for $10

• Dawes Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Homestead Act

• Pacific Railway Act

Why did the government support homesteading?

• to encourage trade with Canada

• to encourage settlers to farm the western land

• Too many people lived in cities.

• the U.S. government liked and supported Native Americans

What was the name of the African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War?

• The Reservationists
• The Exodusters
• The Sodbusters
• The Pioneers

What broke up land from Indian tribes and promoted the assimilation of Native Americans into white culture?

• Homestead Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act