Western Settlement

Of the following, what was the most important invention/improvement responsible for the growth of American industry?

• factories
• railroads
• corporations
• telephone

What common trait was shared by different Plains Indian cultures?

• They are preferred to live on reservations.
• They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.
• They all viewed nature as sacred.
• They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.

Which of the following acts of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?

• the Homestead Act
• the Morrill Land Grant Act
• the Indian Removal Act
• the Dawes Act

The celebration which promised that if the Native Americans returned to their old beliefs and participated in a special ritual that they would be allowed to return to their land was 

• the Ghost Dance
• called concentration.
• assimilation.
• the Dawes Act.

An agricultural system in the South following the Civil War in which a landowner and/or creditor provided a person (without money) access  to land, equipment, and supplies in exchange for part of the crops produced was 

• nativism
• assimilation.
• sharecropping
• tenant farming

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America
• The belief that their destiny was to manifest
• A religious term used to explain how to be saved

As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans?

• They agreed to give up their land.
• They were given their choice of where to live.
• They were forced to live in reservations.
• They voluntarily moved to Canada and Mexico.

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Which of the following contributed to the westward expansion of the United States?

• European warships attacked the eastern seaboard, forcing citizens to move westward for safety.
• Most of the land east of the Mississippi River was not suitable for farming.
• Many Americans felt it was their right and duty to move westward.
• The standard of living on the Pacific Coast was very high, so many people wanted to move there.

The first railroad to cross the United States was the....

• Union Pacific Railroad
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Missouri Railroad
• Transcontinental Railroad

Which of the following is not an effect of the Dawes Act.

• Native Americans forced to Americanize
• Forced them to become farmers
• Native Americans became wealthy landowners
• Abolished Native American Tribes