Manifest Destiny

Which of the following would most likely be a strong believer in Manifest Destiny?

• The owner of a textile factory in the Northeast
• A slave on a southern plantation
• A Native American
• A farmer wanting to obtain new land

The ________________ was a law in 1860 that offered acres of land to anyone who agreed to live on and improve the land for 5 years.

• Dawes Act
• Meeting at Promontory Point
• Homestead Act
• Boomtown Act

What people group is most abused in the American movement to the West? 

• African Americans
• Mexicans
• Native Americans
• Irish Imigrants

How did railroads help with trade and economic growth?

• They did not help. They just polluted the environment for future generations.
• Helped cows eat more grass and grow bigger when they were moved to the train station by the cowboys.
• Provided a fast way to get crops and animals to the markets
• Provided a way to move the Native Americans farther West at a fast rate.

The belief that the United States had a right to expand its borders and claim new lands is known as what?

• Trail of Tears
• Manifest Destiny
• Discrimination
• Industrial Revolution

What is the term given to a system of farming in the West, where there were no fences and the cattle could roam freely?

• Exoduster System
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Open Range System
• Farmer's Alliance

This law gave U.S. Citizens 160 acres of land if they were willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years.

• Farmers Alliance
• Homestead Act 
• Louisiana Purchase Act
• Railroad Act

This was the 1890 confrontation between the U.S. Calvary and Sioux, that marked the end of Indian resistance.

• Wounded Knee
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Pottawatomie Creek Massacre 
• Little Big Horn

Public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the Federal government.

• Homesteads
• Reservations
• Internment camps
• Relocation camps

1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated the U.S Army, by  killing all 2000 troops there.

• Ft. Laramie Massacre
• Little Big Horn
• Sand Creek
• Wounded Knee