Westward Expansion - Humanities

The American Cowboy learned how to take care of cattle on horseback from the _________.

• Outlaws

• Vaqueros

• Native Americans

The expansion of the railroad opened up the western _________ to settlers.

• Frontier

• Homefront

• Pacific

• Mississippi

Native Americans and the U.S. government signed many _________ in hopes that peace would be maintained.

• Treaties

• Agreements

• Laws

• Documents

The U.S. government expected the Native Americans to __________, or adopt an American way of life.

• Leave

• Die

• Assimilate

Settlers stripped the land of trees and grasses mining for precious metals which caused ____________ when water washed away the earth.

• Resistance

• Erosion

• Expansion

Which of the following decreased the need for cowboys?

• The increase in the mining industry

• The invention of barbwire

• The expansion of the railroad

• Increased conflict between settlers and Native Americans

The 1887 ___________ promised to give Native Americans 80 to 160 acres of reservation land.

• Dawes Act

• White Settlers

• Native Americans

The ______________ brought many farmers to the West.

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Dawes Severalty Act 1887

The U.S. government broke the ______________ of 1851.

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Homestead Act

Land that is set aside for Native Americans by the U.S. Government.

• South Dakota

• Nomads

• Camps

• Reservations