APUSH - Westward Expansion - Social and Cultural

TRUE OR FALSE. Westward settlement from 1877-1898 was fueled in part by the building of the transcontinental railroad and federal laws like the Homestead Act.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following were western settlers that both broke in the new land with their plows and bought it from railroad companies.

• Exodusters

• Sodbusters

• Know-Nothings

• Agribusiness-men

In his essay on the closing of the American frontier, Frederick Jackson Turner argued...

• That the closing of the frontier was British ideology against American ideals.

• That the closing of the frontier was absolutely illegal and not worthy of attention to Americans.

• That the closing of the frontier was a cause of concern because Americans had nowhere to get a fresh start and would devolve to class warfare.

• That the closing of the frontier was a cause of celebration as America had settled from sea to shining sea.

Under the reservation system, the American government ...

• granted pardons to American Indians over their resistance in the Sioux Wars.

• placed American indians into land lots called reservations that made them official wards of the state.

• paid American Indians for assimilating into American culture.

• promised American Indians 160 acres of land as long as they settled and "improved" it for 5 years.

By enacting the Dawes Act of 1887, the U.S. Government wanted...

• American Indian resistance to assimilation and preservation of their culture.

• American Indian assimilation into American culture as a requirement for receiving federal land.

• a renewal of the Reservation system with more free land for American Indians.

• a closure of the American frontier and a return to the industrial way of life of the east.

TRUE OR FALSE. The Ghost Dance movement was a last ditch effort of American Indian resistance started by a Northwestern prophet named Wavoka that predicted the return of Indian ancestors and the end of White settlement in Indian territory.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The actions of American troops at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1890 were MOST LIKELY a result of ...

• American Indians buying white settlers territory and reselling it for a profit.

• American Indian cooperation and assimilation into white culture.

• American Indian resistance through the Ghost Dance movement in an effort to preserve their traditional ways of life.

• American Indian leaders calling the President an ally of the Indian cause.