Westward Expansion & Populism Review

What was the outcome of the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• General Custer & the American Army was victorious.

• The Sioux Native Americans were victorious and defeated General Custer’s army.

• There was no victory, only many lives lost.

• It led to a peace treaty between American and the Native Americans.

What ended Native American resistance to the U.S. government on the Plains?

• the Wounded Knee Massacre

• Chief Joseph’s surrender

• the Sand Creek Massacre

• the Battle of the Little Bighorn

What was the goal of the Americanization of Native Americans?

• Natives to move West

• Natives to abandon their culture and assimilate into American society

• Educate Americans about Native culture

• To end the wars between Americans and Native Americans

As a result of the Dawes Act, Native Americans in the Great Plains were effectively forced to

• move to cities.

• own individual sections of reservation land

• relocate to mining communities in the West.

• wear cultural clothing.

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• Banned Chinese immigration for 10 years with a few exceptions, and barred Chinese

  immigrants from becoming citizens.

• Allowed Chinese to enter the USA without any restrictions.

• Allowed Chinese immigrants to marry Americans.

• Excluded Chinese Americans from having to pay income taxes.

Which of the following did the railroad industry NOT do?

• Provided jobs

• Ended slavery

• Sped up settlement West

• Reduced Native American lands

In the late nineteenth century, many farmers responded to falling grain prices by joining with the

• Populists

• Homesteaders

• Exodusters

• Greenbacks

Populists like William Jennings Bryan advocated for all of the following EXCEPT

• Addition of the silver standard for currency

• Maintaining the gold standard for currency.

• Government control of the railroads

• Creation of the Income Tax

_____________ was the speech given by William Jennings Bryan in the lead up to the 1896 election.

• "Cross of Gold"

• "Moon Speech"

• "Arsenal for Democracy"

• "Four Freedoms"

Farmers deemed all of the following as "enemies" EXCEPT

• Big Business

• Railroad Companies

• Banks

• Abolitionists