8-31-20

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

The Battle of Wounded Knee...

• was the first major battle of the west
• was also known as Custer's Last Stand
• was the last major battle of the west
• none of the above

assimilation means...

• to become a part of a different culture
• to forget your name
• to leave your home
• to ignore another culture

The following is one of the things that "closed" the open range.

• tractors
• tumbleweed
• barbed wire
• wild pokemon

This animal was the center of Native American life and culture.

• horse
• Bambi
• Buffalo
• Reindeer

The Homestead Act (1862) promoted the development of western lands by -

• creating a system of dams for crop irrigation

• providing land for $10 to settlers

• removing all restrictions on immigration

• Moving Native American Indians to reservations

How did passage of the Dawes Act affect Native American Indians?

• It supported their existing cultural traditions

• It started a series of Indian Wars on the Great Plains

• It attempted to assimilate them into mainstream American culture

• It forced their removal from areas east of the Mississippi River

Which was a successful example of "Americanization"?

• The Dawes Act led to Americanization of the Indians.

• The Homestead Act made federal land available to settlers.

• The children of New Immigrants learned English in public schools.

• Congress prohibited the immigration of Chinese workers.

What is happening in this photo?

• The Civil War is being ended

• Transcontinental railroad is being finished

• Transcontinental railroad is being started

How did westward expansion impact Native Americans?

• Native Americans and white settlers lived side by side as equals

• it destroyed the buffalo and the Native American way of life

• Native Americans acquired more lan

• it helped the Native Americans prosper