The Impact of Westward Expansion on Native Americans 8024

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

This animal was the center of Native American life and culture.

• horse
• Bambi
• Buffalo
• Reindeer

The Exodusters were...

• former slaves
• current slaves
• current ranchers
• former ranchers

The Dawes Act...

• allowed the Plains Indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herd.

• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation.

• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers.

• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad.

What happened at Custer's Last Stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Custer killed all of the Lakota Indians.
• Custer and Sitting Bull made an agreement that the Native Americans Could have their land.
• Custer was killed, along with his entire force.

Little Bighorn is ....

• a native American leader.

• the name of a battle between Americans and natives.

What was the primary source of food, clothing, tools, shelter for the Plains Indians?

• Elk
• Deer
• Horses
• Buffalo

Native Americans suffered greatly from the changes that swept the West.

• False
• True

Land set aside by the US government for the Native Americans is called

• a reservation.

• a territory.

• a freehold.

• a land grant.

The process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of a dominant culture

• assimilation

• amalgamation

• acculturation