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Westward Expansion

Authored by Megan Egitto

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9th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During the 19th century, the Federal government helped the transcontinental railroad companies by

breaking up railroad monopolies

setting safety standards for railroad operation

providing loans and free land for railroad construction

establishing uniform shipping rates

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The establishment of transcontinental rail lines and the construction of America's massive rail network had all of the following effects EXCEPT

They led to the rapid industrialization of the Old South following the Civil War

They allowed for the faster distribution of goods throughout the country

Their building spurred a series of important technical advances

They made the country "smaller" in the sense that they dramatically reduced the time needed to traverse the continent

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Dawes Act of 1887 do?

It granted Native Americans large tracts of land for reservations that would be owned collectively by each tribe.

It granted free land to farmers who would occupy and improve their plots for at least 5 years.

It made it illegal for whites to settle on Native American lands.

It transferred ownership of Native American reservations from entire tribes to individual families.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The decline of the "open range" resulted primarily from

low beef prices which made the practice unprofitable.

government policies giving priority use of the range to sheepherders.

the invention of barbed wire led to many farmers fencing off their land.

the high cost of cattle which constantly wandered off on the open range

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were the "Exodusters"?

Former slaves who, after emancipation, vowed never to pick cotton again.

A mass migration of African Americans from various southern states to the west in the late 1870s.

Newly freed slaves who founded black churches across the South.

Former slaves who spent their post-slavery days searching or family members who had been sold away.

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Morrill Act provided

160 acres of free land to farmers who would occupy and improve their plots for at least 5 years

Large reservations for the tribes of the Great Plains

Large amounts of federal government land to states that would establish agricultural or mechanical colleges

40 acres of land to former slaves

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

"What we can and should do is...to fit the Indians...for the habits and occupations of civilized life, by work and education; to individualize them in the possession and appreciation of property, by allotting to them lands in severalty, giving them free simple title individually to the parcels of land they cultivate...The circumstances surrounding them place before the Indians this stern alternative: extermination of civilization." -Carl Shurz, Secretary of Interior, 1881

Which federal policy is most clearly reflected in the quote above?

The attempt to instill white notions of property ownership in Native Americans

The intentional massacre of Native Americans during the Plains Wars

The repeated violation of treaties signed with Native Americans

The movement to allow Native Americans to keep their original lands

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