Westward Expansion

All of the following were major changes brought about by the Market Revolution EXCEPT:

• People moving from farms to factories

• Movement of homes in the country to home in the city

• Electricity in people’s homes

• Easier communication and transportation

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
•  Monroe Doctrine 
•  Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

The process by which a minority culture gives up its own identity and replaces it with the dominant culture is called

• Modernization

• Assimilation

• Extinction

• Americanization

What are the lands that the United States government set aside for the Native Americans called?

• Wilderness Areas

• Parks

• Reservations

• Tribal Territories

Native American boarding schools were designed to __________ Indian children’s lives.

• change the culture

• force assimilation

• adopt white, European ways

• all of the above

What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans?

• the railroads helped the Natives move east

• Native Americans got jobs on the railroads

• the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supply and took away precious resources

• the railroads increased the amount of land the Natives had

How did the development of the railroad impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east

What government grant gave 160 acres of land to pioneers to farm for 5 years?

• New Land Act
• Homestead Act
• Free Land Act
• Welcome Home Act

What caused a rush of people to California? 

• Immigration to Mexico
• Gold
• Silver
• Farmland

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad