Westward Expansion

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

• Lure Native Americans to migrate to the frontier

• Entice Native Americans to move to urban areas

• Give Native Americans jobs in the federal bureaucracy

• Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle

What did the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Pacific Railway Act demonstrate about the federal government?

• It was committed to settling the Western territories.

• It was concerned about conserving natural resources.

• It was unwilling to move Native American tribes to reservations.

• It was determined to break up business trusts harmful to free enterprise.

Based on the map, which statement can best be concluded about Native Americans in the late 1800s?

• They were given back land previously taken from them.

• They were forced to give up some of their land as settlers moved west.

• They were required to integrate into society by moving away from reservations.

• They were encouraged to combine their territories into one centralized reservation.

How did the Dawes Act of 1887 mark a departure from earlier federal Native American policy?

• It encouraged the shooting of buffalo herds from new railroad lines.

• It moved Native Americans still on the Great Plains to reservations farther west.

• It required Native Americans to withdraw private plots from the tribal reservation.

• It led to conflicts between new settlers and Native Americans on the Great Plains.

What was a negative aspect of the Americanization policy of the late 1880s for Native Americans?

• Native Americans learned English and could gain the right to vote.

• Native Americans could own and farm 160 acres of their own land.

• Native Americans attended reservation schools and learned a trade.

• Native Americans saw the survival of their traditional cultures threatened.

According to the federal government, what was the objective of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• to grant immediate and full citizenship rights to Native Americans

• to move Native Americans into the cities to supply industrial labor

• to encourage assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream American culture

• to restore lands to the Native Americans tribes that had lost lands to white settlers

What is the main problem addressed by the cartoon above?

• The livestock raised on Native American reservations were diseased.

• Native Americans went hungry while federal Native American agents grew wealthy.

• The federal government provided Native Americans with all the supplies they needed.

• Federal Native American agents assisted Native Americans in growing crops on the reservation.

"A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

– Richard H. Pratt, 1892

 

Which of the following federal actions does this excerpt support?

• the continuation of the Indian Wars

• the passage of the Homestead Act

• the establishment of the Reservation System

• the creation of Native American boarding schools

What was an effect of Westward Expansion on the lives of Plains Native Americans?

• The steam engine resulted in decreased Native American reliance on buffalo and a shift to farming culture.

• The United States designated the buffalo as a protected species to help the Plains Native Americans thrive.

• The decline in the buffalo population caused by white settlers forced Plains Native Americans off of tribal lands.

• The railroads avoided areas that had high concentrations of Native Americans and buffalo in order to avoid conflict.

Use the list below to answer the following question.

The passage of the Homestead Act

The killing of the buffalo

The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

 

What was the main effect of the events listed above?

• it increased migration of farmers to the East

• it led to a decline in the population of Native Americans

• it caused a mass migration of African Americans to the North

• it forced Native Americans to migrate East in search of industrial jobs