Westward Expansion: Impact on Native Americans

How do these images show the impact of westward expansion on Native Americans?

• Native Americans were forced to assimilate into American culture
• Native Americans gained opportunities to own land
• Native Americans benefitted from purchasing mail order goods
• Native Americans went west in search of gold and silver wealth

Westward expansion had the most negative effect on which group of people?

• European immigrants
• American Indians
• Southern farmers
• African Americans

Native Americans lost their homelands mostly due to:

• droughts.

• selling their land.

• fights breaking out.

• treaties being broken.

What did the Homestead Act offer?

• a free house made of wood

• a stop along the Oregon Trail

• free land after 5 years of living on it.

American Indians’ population was reduced by battles with settlers, disease, and a decrease in buffalo populations.

• True

• False

The US treated the American Indians fairly by buying their land at a good price and allowing them to live on reservations only if they wanted to.

• True

• False

All of the following choices best represent the impact that westward expansion had on Native Americans except which one?

• Forced relocation from traditional lands to reservations

• Assimilation attempts and lifestyle changes

• Obtaining wealth - search for gold and silver

• Reduced population through warfare and disease

Land that the U.S. government designated for Native Americans. This land was often poor and lacked resources.

• Campsite

• Reservations

• Great Plains

• The West

Colonel Custer led 215 U.S. soldiers against 3,000 Indian warriors.

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Battle of the Bulge

• Gettysburg

• Battle of Little Bighorn

The Battle of Little Bighorn became known as _________________________.

• Sitting Bull's Ghost Dance

• The Sioux Wars

• Custer's Last Stand

• The Civil War