Westward Expansion: Crash Course US History #24

Match the following

• The grassland region of the United States

• Great Plains

• U.S. massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota

• Dawes Act

• Name of plan to make Native Americans part of white culture

• Treaty of Fort Laramie

• 1868 treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation

• assimilation

• Law that broke up Native American reservations

• Battle of Wounded Knee

True or False:

Most people that moved West went as part of a group (example, family or immigrant group).

• True

• Falso

What authority sponsored the development of the railroads on the Western front?

• Private companies

• The US Government

• The French Suez Canal Company

Railroads made life in the West profitable and livable by bringing what items?

• tools, shoes, and books

• sewing machines

• toys

The development of the railroads was supported by states which led to the

• destruction of the Native American culture

• the improvement of the lives of Native Americans

• the protection of the buffalo

Native Americans were moved from off their land because

• white people wanted the land they lived on

• the Mexican government was reclaiming the lands

• it's not true, nobody wanted that land

What was the purpose of the Ghost Dance?

After the passage of the _____ ___, Indians lost 86 million of the 138 million acres of land in their possession.

• Dawes Act

• Treaty of Guadalupe and Hidalgo

• The Homestead Act

• Cherokee Trail of Tears

Who wrote the mystery document, which said that the US Government was making promises and not keeping them while Native Americans were dying and their land was taken?

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

What was the purpose of the boarding schools?

• To give Native Americans a great education

• Forced assimilation of Native American children by teaching them white American culture and breaking up Native families

• To house orphans