Westward Expansion/Gilded Age Review

What was the homestead act?

• An act that made homework illegal

• Gave Indians free land

• Freed slaves

• Gave Americans free land

How did homesteaders adapt to their environments?

• used a shovel

• installed a sprinkler system

• used windmills

• they used local lakes

The aim of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

• Restore previously taken land to the Native Americans

• Maintain traditional Native American Cultures

• Assimilate Native American Indians to American Culture

• End all governmental contact with Native Americans

Who worked on the continental railroad?

• Chinese

• Freed Slaves

• Irish

• All of the Above

What is assimilation?

• The process of killing off a better culure

• The process of rejecting another culture

• The process of being forced to take on another culture.

• The process of accepting and work with another Culture

Nativism was the

• The intense dislike of Native Americans

• Attempting to keep West and East Berlin separate

• A policy of protecting US citizen interests over immigrant

• Practicing Native American rituals and beliefs

What was the Klondike Gold Rush?

• People selling the gold they found in their homes in Alaska

• People traveling to Alaska to dig for gold

• People turning lead into gold in Alaska

• People make jewelry out of gold in Alaska

Why are monopolies illegal?

• One company has complete control over competition.

• When government has too much control over businesses.

• Every one gets the same amount of money

• Because you can make too much money.

What was the most important thing to the native americans?

• buffalo

• tiger

• Mooshy

• sloth

what was social darwinism

• the idea that only the strongest animals survive in the wild

• the idea that we should help the poor

• the idea that poverty is genetic

• the idea that the strongest and richest survive