8th grade unit 10 Westward Expansion

Which is true concerning industry and agriculture after the Civil War?

• The South failed to diversity in agriculture

• The Plains states attracted industrial laborers to factories

• The South attracted homesteaders and immigrants to farming

• The Northeast continued to dominate the nation in manufacturing

Which industry developed in response to iron ore and the transportation system?

• steel

• textiles

• coal mining

• glass

The Indian way of life was mostly impacted by

• movement from rural to urban areas

• changes in beliefs from generation to generation

• governmet policies of assimilation

• fewer tribes on the frontier

Which is true about the buffalo and the railroad?

• railroads allowed Americans to see wild animals of the West

• Buffalo caused railroads problems so they paid to destroy them

• Buffalo migrated along the same routes as the western railroads

• Railroads were built along the same paths as telegraph lines

What was the result of the practice in this picture?

• New technology led to mass production

• The Plains Indians culture was severly damaged

• Processing hides became national industry

• Railroads made large profits from shipping hides

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Massacre at Wounded Knee

• Battle of the Buffalo Soldier

Which law was passed to focus "specifically on breaking up reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans" so they would adopt "white clothing and ways....and gradually drop his Indian-ness..."

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Bland-Allison Act

• Indian Comission Act

assimilation

• federal Indian policy that marked a departure from removal, treaties, reservations and war

• new policy focused on breaking up land allotments to individual Native Americans

• if a person adoptd white clothing and ways and was responsible for his own farm, he would gradually drop his Indian-ness.

• It would be no longer necessary for the government to oversee Indian welfare in the fatherly way

medicine man for the Sioux who planned the trap at Little Big Horn

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Chief Joseph

"I shall fight no more forever"

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Chief Joseph