22/23 Westward Expansion Review

Public lands set aside by the government where Native Americans were required to live

• land grants

• reservations

• exodusters

• homesteads

What was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?

• an example of the Americanization of Native Americans

• a boarding school for Native Americans to learn American culture & English

• a school that taught in a way that broke down tribal beliefs and culture

• all answer choices are correct

What is Manifest Destiny?

• belief that the U.S. had a God-given right to expand across the continent

• a policy of extending a country's power over weaker countries/territories

• belief that having more land gives you more power and influence

• a policy of acquiring full political control over another state

True or false: Assimilation is becoming part of a larger or new culture

• True

• False

Law that divided reservation land into private, family plots

• Merrill Gates Act

• Grange Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

Which of the following statements best describes the status of Native American tribes in the late 19th century?

• They had been completely destroyed as political, military, and cultural forces.

• The U.S. government no longer treated the tribes as sovereign units and forced them onto reservations.

• They were still strong political, military, and cultural forces that successfully resisted all attempts to interfere with their affairs.

• The U.S. government treated tribes as sovereign units and allowed them to keep large amounts of land.

What challenges did farmers encounter in the West? Choose ALL that apply.

• overproduction & low prices

• issues w/ money supply

• high railroad shipping costs

• debt

• low railroad shipping costs

A tenant farmer who gave a part of each crop as rent to the farm owner

• sharecropper

• carpetbagger

• scalawag

• freedmen

Why was the Massacre at Wounded Knee important/significant?

• It led to government reforms to protect Native Americans' rights

• It led to a larger Native American rebellion in the West

• It signaled the end of widespread Native American resistance to expansion

• It influenced the passage of the Dawes Act

In the late 1800s, what political party that claimed to represent the "ordinary" people formed from a merging of farmers and laborers?

• The Democratic Party

• The Republican Party

• The Populist Party

• The Bull Moose Party