3.1 Westward Expansion

________________________ connected the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific and made transporting goods and people more easier.

• The Manifest Destiny

• Dawes Act

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• Homestead Act

The ________________________ was a legislation passed bt Abraham Lincoln that gave away free land in the West.

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Granger Laws

• Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

• Dawes Act

What was the main purpose of the reservation system?

• To make the new transcontinental railroad safer to operate

• To clear federal lands for settlement by railroads, ranchers, and farmers

• To provide unemployment for Union troops and veterans after the Civil War

• To make it easier for Indians to assimilate into mainstream American culture

The ___________________ was legislation passed by Congress to promote Native Americans assimulation into Americann assimilation into American culture by setting up schools.

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Granger Laws

• Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

• Dawes Act

What was a negative aspect of the “Americanization” policy of the late 1880s for American Indians?

• Indians attended reservation schools and learned a trade.

• Indians learned English and could gain the right to vote.

• Indians could own and farm 160 acres of their own land.

• Indians saw the survival of their traditional cultures threatened.

The passage of the Homestead Act and the transcontinental railroad helped to fulfill the United States commitment to

• Reconstruction

• Manifest Destiny

• Racial Equality

• Preservation of Natural Resources

Which group was negatively impacted by the policy reflected in the poster?

The poster was created in the early 1860s.

• White farmers

• Chinese immigrants

• Native Americans

• African Americans Sharecroppers

How did railroads impact Westward Expansion?

• It made it easier for Native Americans to survive, because they had easier access to food sources

• It made it harder because land in the west was too expensive

• It made it harder for food and resources to be shipped west

• It made it easier by shrinking the time it took to travel out west by weeks

How did the Homestead Act impact settlement out West?

• Land was too expensive, so only the wealthiest Americans could afford it

• Allowed Native American to claim new territories

• Made land available for more Americans, who then moved Westward

• It made it harder for settlers to move west

Which of the following was a social effect of westward expansion on the Native Americans?

• Native Americans could not get enough supplies and this led to poverty

• Native Americans were forced to live on reservations, which separated them from white pioneers

• Native Americans could no longer access the rich mineral deposits found in the Black Hills

• Native Americans culture became widely accepted by white settlers