Unit 1: Topic 1 - US Westward Expansion Test Review

__________________________ was the belief that European Americans should take over the entire North American continent

• Populism

• Nativism

• Manifest Destiny

• Racism

Westward expansion occurred more quickly after what two factors were introduced?

• The transcontinental railroad was constructed

• The removal of the Indians

• The rise of the cattle kingdom

• The Homestead Act

The Homestead act said that homesteaders could gain title to land by doing 1 of the two following things: ______

• Cultivating the land for 5 years

• Building a house on the land

• Buying the land for $1.25 an acre

• Kicking Native Americans off their reservation

What was NOT a pull factor of Westward migration.

• Faster/cheaper travel West

• More open space

• Hard time growing crops on soil in the west

• the Gold Rush

European American expansion west rapidly decreased the population of what minority in the United States?

• Mexican - Americans

• Native Americans

• Chinese Immigrants

• Irish Immigrants

Who attacked first at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• The Sioux

• General Custer

• The Irish Immigrants

• the buffalo soldiers

This event marked the end of the Indian Wars.

• Wounded Knee

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• The Battle of Black Water Bay

• The Battle of the Alamo

The Native American's refusal to stop participating in the ___________________ ,a ritual to reconnect with the Native American's past way of life, was the primary reason Wounded Knee occurred.

• raids of white settlers

• rhythms of the ancestors

• war cry dance

• ghost dance

What group of people were forcibly moved to reservations and sometimes killed so white settlers could acquire their land and resources?

• Native Americans

• Irish Immigrants

• Chinese Immigrants

• Mexican Americans

This act of legislation split up Indian reservations into sections of private property in order to assimilate the natives into mainstream European American culture.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Native American Assimilation Act