Westward Expansion

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

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

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

• reservations; allotments

• pueblos; parcels

• tribes; allotments

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.

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

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation

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

What was the main purpose of the Homestead Act?

• to bring an end to cattle drives
• to encourage settlement on the Great Plains
• to build the Transcontinental Railroad
• to provide a market for steel plows

How did the Transcontinental Railroad change life for people in the United States?

• It allowed the US government to claim more land from Mexico

• It made it possible to ship goods from the North to the South

• It made settlers more likely to travel by wagon to the West

• It became much easier to travel from the East to the West

Manifest Destiny is the belief that

• it was right for the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean.

• native people in the United States should be treated with respect.

• the United States should respect the land claims of other countries.

• all U.S. citizens should have the right to vote.