Westward Expansion Quiz

_______ is the idea that God wanted America to have land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

• Providence
• The Spoils System
• Manifest Destiny
• Destiny of the USA

This innovation helped link the country's natural resources from the west with the factories on the east.

Which of the following was intended to assimilate Native Americans?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Which of the following offered free land in the West to encourage settlement?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

Which of the following is responsible for the end of the cattle drives?

• Dawes Act

• Buffalo

• Barbed Wire

• Immigration

Pressuring Native Americans to cut their hair, change their dress, and learn English are examples of:

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

This law gave 160 acres of free land to those willing to claim it and work it for 5 years.

• The land act of 1900

• The Homestead Act of 1862

Former African American slaves who moved west for a better life.

• migrants

• sod busters

• Exodusters

• Emancipators

This achievement brought people, goods and supplies, and improved communications to the Grate Plains and the West.

• The telegraph

• the automobile

• the aeroplane

• the Transcontinental railroad

What animal was essential to the survival of the Great Plains Indians?

• Coyote

• Buffalo

• Wolf