Western Expansion & Indian Removal

Formal agreements between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes that were often broken or ignored by the U.S.

• decrees

• contracts

• treaties

• deals

Areas of federal land that Native Americans were forcibly relocated to.

• exclusionary zones

• reservations

• homelands

• planned communities

Name the battle in which 264 U.S. soldiers led by General George Custer were killed by Sioux Indians.

• Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

• Fort Laramie

• Battle of Yavin

Which of the following was NOT a reason for increased westward expansion after the Civil War

• Opportunities for land ownership

• British forces attacking settlers in the East

• Desire for a new beginning for former enslaved African Americans

• Possibility of obtaining wealth, created by the discovery of gold and silver

This technological advance made it much faster, safer, and easier for settlers to move west.

• The Borgo Pass

• The Appalachian Trail

• The Erie Canal

• Transcontinental Railroad

The process in which Native Americans were forced to abandon their traditional way of life and adopt the language, clothing, and religion of White Americans.

• forced integration

• forced acculturation

• forced assimilation

• forced cohabitation

When this animal was hunted almost to the point of extinction by white hunters, the plains Indians lost their main source of food, clothing, and tools.

• the buffalo

• the caribou

• the dodo bird

• the grizzly bear

The location in South Dakota where the U.S. Army massacred about 150 Indian men women and children

• Great Bridge

• Twin Peaks

• Medicine Lodge

• Wounded Knee

Which of the following is NOT a way that the Native American population was drastically reduced?

• warfare

• disease

• death by natural causes and old age

• over hunting of the buffalo

The desire for a new beginning for former enslaved African Americans was one reason for increased western expansion after the Civil War.

• True

• False