Unit 1.3 Western Expansion

Use the image to determine which phrase completes the diagram.

• Lure Native Americans to migrate to the frontier

• Entice Native Americans to move to urban areas

• Give Native Americans jobs in the federal bureaucracy

• Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle

What id the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Pacific Railway Act demonstrate about the federal government?

• It was committed to settling the Western territories.

• It was concerned about conserving natural resources.

• It was unwilling to move Native American tribes to reservations.

• It was determined to break up business trusts harful to free enterprise.

According to the map, which statement can best be concluded about Native Americans in the late 1800s?

• They were given back land previously taken from them.

• They were forced to give up some of their land as settlers moved west.

• They were required to integrate into society by moving away from reservations.

• They were encouraged to combine their territories into one centralized reservation.

Based upon the caricature image, how did the Dawes Act mark a departure from earlier federal Native American policy?

• It encouraged the shooting of buffalo herds from new railroad lines.

• It moved Native Americans still on the Great Plains to reservations farther west.

• It led to conflicts between new settlers and Native Americans on the Great Plains.

What was a negative aspect of the Americanization policy of the late 1880s for Native Americans?

• Native Americans learned English and could gain the right to vote.

• Native Americans could own and farm 160 acres of their own land.

• Native Americans attended reservation schools and learned a trade.

• Native Americans saw the survival of their traditional cultures threatened.

Accordig to the federal government, what was the objective of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• to grant immediate and full citizenship rights to Native Americans

• to move Native Americans into the cities to supply industrial labor

• to encourage assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream American culture.

• to restore lands to the Native American tribes that had lost lands to white settlers

What is the main problem addressed by the cartoon?

• The livestock raised on Native American reservations were diseased.

• Native Americans went hungry while federal Native American agents rew wealthy.

• The federal government provided Native Americans with all the supplies they needed.

• Federal Native American agents assisted Native Americans in growing crops on the reservation.

Which of the following federal actions does this excerpt support?

• the continuation of the Indian Wars

• the passage of the Homestead Act

• the establishment of the Reservation System

• the creation of Native American boarding schools

What was an effect of Westward Expansion on the lives of Plains Native Americans?

• The steam engine resulted in decreased Native American reliance on buffalo and a shift to farming culture.

• The US designated the buffalo as a protected species to help the Plains Native Americans thrive.

• The decline in the buffalo population caused by white settlers forced Plains Native Americans off of tribal lands.

• The railroads avoided areas that had high concentrations of Native Americans and buffalo in order to avoid conflict.

Use the list below to answer the following question.

---the passage of the Homestead Act

---the killing of the buffalo

---the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

What was the main effect of these events?

• it increased migration of farmers to the East

• it led to a decline in the population of Native Americans

• it caused a mass migration of African Americans to the North

• it forced Native Americans to migrate East in search of industrial jobs