APUSH Western Expansion and it's impact on America

Farmers valued access to the railroads but they also feared them because ...

• railroads controlled their profits through rates they charge fro transporting crops

• railroads brought waves of immigrants to their lands

• railroads favored the interest of the cattlemen

• railroads could be run through their lands according to the principle of eminent domain

Which of the following BESRT describes what happened in the west in 25 years following the conclusion of the Civil War

• the West remained a largely unexplored wilderness

• The frontier rapidly disappeared

• The United States conquered new territories from the Mexicans and the Briyish

• The west became a major center of American Manufacturing

The government encouraged the building of the transcontinental railroad with generous land because

• politicians hoped the construction project would relieve unemployment

• powerful senators wanted to help their supporters in the steel industry

• it needed to transfer troops from east to west during the civil war

• It wanted to encourage western settlement

Those farmers who were successful on the Great plains

• Came to the West as single men with women

• utilized manufacturing farming techniques they had learned in the west

• personified the spirit of rugged individualism

• relied on the assistance of the other settlers around them

The Exodusters were ...

• newly arrived miners in oregon

• Southerners who went west to settle

• THose who "dusted" or cleaned crops for the Bonanza Farmers

• immigrants who went west to farm

The Dawes Act...

• Tried to turn Native American into farmers who would farm their own individual plots

• protected Native Americans reservations into smaller ones

• Made the Ghost Dance illegal

the organization expressed the views of farmers to the largest national audience was the

• Greenback party

• Grange

• farmers Alliance

• Populist party

The Turner Thesis

• Agreed with accounts of the west in the dome store novels in the 1870's concerning the character of western expansion

• Took into account of the Native American Massacres

• noted the impact on the westward expansion on the American Character

• emphasized the "hard Living" that went on in many western the establishments

Which of the following is MOST Directly a cause of the Massacre at Wounded Knee?

• The Force Act

• The Indian Removal Act

• The Ghost Dance

• The Grange Movment