Westward Expansion and Populist Movement

The ____________________ encouraged assimilation of Native Americans into American culture and to give up their traditional culture

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

What was a result of the Indian Wars?

• Native Americans were elected to the US Government

• Native Americans were sent to reservations on sparsely populated land

• Native Americans regained control of the West

• Native Americans moved to California

What was an outcome of the Populist Party and the Granger Movement?

• Many proposed reforms were turned to law

• The US became a three party system

• William Jennings Bryan was elected President in 1896

• Farmers gained control of the railroads

Because women played an important role in developing the west, they

• fought alongside men in the Indian Wars

• became the head of the family unit

• held political office

• gained the right to vote earlier than in the east

The Populist Party and the Granger Movement sought to protect

• Nativists

• Immigrants

• Farmers

• Native Americans

The Populist Party and the Granger Movement sough to protect farmers from the abuses of

• Railroads

• National Government

• Native Americans

• Foreign Nations

The mechanization (use of machines) of agriculture led to

• droughts across the midwest

• the Industrial Revolution

• increases in farm production

• decreases in Buffalo

_______________ provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it.

• Homeland Security Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

The Homestead Act, Buffalo hunting and building of the transcontinental railroad resulted in

• the decline of the Plains Indians

• a rise in Industrialization

• a conflict with Mexico

• an increase in immigration

What age is Mr. Maghrak turning next week?

• 62

• 52

• 42

• 32