Westward Movement

This piece of legislation offered 160 acres of free land to any settler who agreed to cultivate that land

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Great Plains Act

• Ghost Dance Act

How did the expansion of the railroad lead to the near extinction of buffalo?

• it allowed for the quick transportation of buffalo hide to the east

• it allowed Native Americans to hunt them more easily

• it did not contribute at all to their extinction

• to destroyed all of their food

This invention allowed settlers to live on the Great Plains

• barbed wire

• silver

• telegraph

• gold

The U.S. federal government helped support farmers by starting colleges and universities that taught agricultural through

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Morrill Land Grant Act

• Red River Act

The adoption of the cultural ways of life of others

• massacre

• Darwinism

• assimilation

• acculturation

This 19th century innovation transformed the USA by connecting east and west

• Oregon Trail

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Pony Express

The Dawes Act mainly benefited

• Native Americans

• white settlers

• Native Americans and white settlers

• Neither native Americans nor white settlers