Unit 3 Review

What is imperialism?

• Putting a king in place and setting up a monarchy

• Giving land to other countries

• Taking over a country and claiming it as your own

• Creating more laws

What is expansion?

• To grow bigger

• To grow smaller

• To stay the same

• To change the law

True or False: U.S. Westward expansion made life better for Native Americans

• True

• False

True or False: The railroad made travel across the country easier.

• False

• True

How did Native Americans respond to U.S. westward expansion?

• Some tribes united together to fight back

• A series of battles were fought against the U.S.

• Some chose to surrender try and make peace

• All of these choices

What law gave the government the ability to redistribute Native American land to individual families?

• The Dawes Act

• The Native American Act

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Platt Amendment

The Dawes act:

• Allowed Native Americans to live their traditional lives

• Tried to force Native Americans to assimilate

• Did not impact Native Americans

• Gave Native Americans political power

What is Yellow Journalism?

• News about positive things going on

• Exaggerated news designed to make money

• Fact-based newspapers

• Important government documents

Who blew up the USS Maine?

• Spain

• Cuba

• The United States

• No one was ever officially blamed

Which is not a territory gained by the U.S. from the Spanish-American war?

• Phillippines

• Puerto Rice

• The Sandwich Islands

• Guam