U.S. History Westward Expansion

Over time, Native American tribes were willingly or unwilling moved onto designated (typically smaller) tracts of land called...

• Preserves

• Quaratines

• Reservations

• Plantations

How did the development of the railroad impact the bison population?

• the amount of bison did not change
• the amount of bison decreased
• the amount of bison increased
• bison migrated east

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Polluted the air and the natural environment
• All of the above

What is the Pony Express?

• The name of a horse
• A new town
• A way to deliver mail
• A horse race

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand across the North American contitent was known as

• The Great Expansion
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Fever
• The Monroe Doctrine

Which best describes Manifest Destiny?

• Caused everyone to get along better
• expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific
• Idea started in the 1600s
• The king said that we had to the right to move west

What invention helped prevent cattle from escaping?

• bean picker
• barbed wire
• steel plow
• windmills 

Why were the buffalo so important to the Native Americans?

• They provided food.
• provide food, shelter, tools and clothing
• They provide conflict
• provide buffalo

What caused the population of buffalo to decrease from 50 million to 1,000 on The Great Plains?

• Railroads
• settlers
• railroad workers
• All of the above

Who did Colonel Custer attack at the Battle of Little Big Horn?

• Chief Joseph
• The U.S. Army
• Crazy Horse
• Sitting Bull