The West Transforms Review

The assimilation of Native Americans

• was the adoption of cultures and civilizations of whites.

• was the movement from reservations.

• was the movement from West to East.

Select the answer choice that is incorrect: The Dawes Act of 1887

• Each Native American family was granted an 160 acre portion of land.

• replaced the reservation system with the allotment system.

• Native Americans owned the land immediately upon allotment.

• Natives had to work the land for 25 years before the deed was actually theirs.

Which term would a historian most likely reference to the image above?

• Assimilation

• Manifest Destiny

• Displacement

What impact did the Transcontinental RR have on the West? Select all that apply.

• Brought more people out West faster

• the development of new inventions

• The development of cities

• It kept the West from being settled

What type of labor was typically used to construct the RRs?

• American labor

• Immigrant labor

• Only African American labor

• Only African American and Chinese labor

The open range system was a

• system of branding of cattle with no fences and cattle foraged for their own food.

• piece of land that was blocked off for cattle.

• was a system that allowed people to use each others land for their own livestock.

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet many of their basic needs?

• Cotton
• Deer
• Buffalo
• Gold

Colonel George Armstrong Custer is best known for his..

• support of the rights of Native Americans.
• disastrous loss in Battle of the Little Bighorn.
• defeat of the Sioux and Cheyenne in the Indian Wars.
• unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

The term "sodbusters" refers to..

• railroad workers.
• Great Plains farmers.
• Oklahomans.
• cowhands.