Westward Expansion/Industrialization Final Exam Review

What gave 160 acres to people willing to settle the plains?

• Dawes Act
• National Grange
• Farmers' Alliances
• Homestead Act

The Plains Indians met their need for food by hunting

• chickens
• wild pigs
• buffalo
• horses

A way  to take large herds to railway shipping points

• Crazy Horse
• cattle drive
• reservation
• Statue of Liberty

General Custer was killed at this battle by Chief Sitting Bull and his men.

• Battle of Sioux Resistance
• Battle of Little Big Claw
• Battle of Wounded Knee
• Battle of Little Big Horn

Manifest Destiny is America's belief that they had the God Given right to move West no matter who or what was in the way. 

• True 
• False

Assimilation can be defined as

• when one becomes more like the dominant culture.
• when a person refuses to learn the dominant culture
• when a culture is practice all over the world
• when a culture is similar to another culture

Why were treaties between Native Americans and the US government not honored?

• Native Americans broke their promises
• Chinese immigrants sided with the US
• gold was found on reservations 
• reservations had fertile farmland

What was the belief of reformers regarding Native American children?

• they should learn the ways of the white man
• they should learn about Native American ways of life
• they should learn how to be like chinese immigrants
• they should learn how to be ranchers and cowboys

I just moved to America in search of gold. Instead, I took a job working on the Transcontinental Railroad. I am paid less than white workers, even though I am a hard worker.

• African American
• European Immigrant
• Mexican American
• Chinese Immigrant

What invention allowed people and goods to travel across the country in just a week?

• The Transcontinental Railroad
• The pony express
• The telegraph