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Westward Expansion

Authored by Cassandra Willis

Social Studies

8th Grade

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Westward Expansion
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Manifest Destiny?

Idea that the United States was meant to expand to the Mississippi River

Idea that the United States should expand to other continents

Belief that the United States should expand to the Pacific coast

Belief that the United States is superior to other Nations

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

Homestead Act 
Morrill Act 
Dawes Act 
Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The Dawes Act broke up__________ and gave_________of land to Native Americans.

reservations; allotments

pueblos; parcels

tribes; allotments

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happened at Custer's Last Stand in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Custer killed all of the Lakota Indians.
Custer and Sitting Bull made an agreement that the Native Americans Could have their land.
Custer was killed, along with his entire force.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

Homestead Act 
Morrill Act 
Dawes Act 
Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

Nativism
Ethnic Enclaves
Assimilation

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What act gave 160 acres to any family who would live on the land and farm it for 5 years?

The Homestead Promise
The Homestead Neighborhood
The Homestead Act of 1862
The Homestead farmland

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