18-19 USH Vocabulary Westward Expansion Review

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What were Boom Towns?

• Towns that were developed when gold and silver was found in a particular place.

• Towns that were abandoned after the gold and silver mines were depleted.

• Towns where dynamite was found

• Towns where loud sounds were often heard.

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The belief that the U.S. was meant to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific is known as:

• Imperialism

• The Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Darwinism

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These "Exodusters" chose to move West in order to escape the KKK and in the hopes of owning land.

• European Immigrants

• Asian Immigrants

• Mexican Americans

• African Americans

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What did the invention of the telegraph allow people to do for the first time?

• hear someone's voice who is standing many miles away

• see an object clearly that is many miles in the distance

• send a message almost instantly from a great distance

• send a message across the country in a week's time

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What was the last armed conflict to take place between the Native Americans and the U.S. Army?

• The Battle of Tippecanoe

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• The Battle of Little Big Horn

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The law that tried to force Native Americans to assimilate into white culture in 1887 was called the:

• Dawes Act

• Enforcement Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Homestead Act

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Which statement best explains what the Dawes Act did?

• It allowed the railroads to build on private land.

• It put bounties on buffalo, with the goal of starving the Native Americans

• It gave free land to white settlers.

• It took tribal lands from Native Americans, sold leftover land to whites, and forced Natives to assimilate.

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Which of the following led to the end of the open ranges of the West?

• trains

• windmills

• barbed wire

• Homestead Act

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This law offered free or cheap land to Americans and immigrants who were willing to start new settlements and farms on the Great Plains.

• Relocation Act

• Land Settlement Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

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Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?

• The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.

• Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.

• Railroads allowed People to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.

• Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.