Unit 2 - Westward Expansion Pre-Test

What is the belief that the U.S. had the right to expand across North America called?

• Manifest Destiny

• Great Awakening

• Monroe Doctrine

• Louisiana Purchase

What was the primary goal of manifest destiny?

• End slavery in new territories.

• Expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.

• Remove European influence from South America.

• Southern states secession from the nation.

Why did the Homestead Act encourage people to move West?

• It established ranching towns for cattle drivers.

• It offered land to gold prospectors.

• It offered free land to those willing to farm it.

• It promised protection from Native Americans.

Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on __________ to meet many of their basic needs.

What was the main purpose of the Dawes Act?

• Transform Native Americans into farmers.

• Return land ownership to tribes.

• Reconstruct Native American nations.

• Boost the Native American population.

How did the decrease in buffalo affect the lifestyle of American Indians?

• They built wooden houses and planted wheat.

• They quickly migrated to the Pacific region.

• They worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.

• They found other resources for food, clothing, and shelter.

Native Americans were forced to assimilate into American culture, which means to ____________.

What was the system after the Civil War where a landowner provided a person with land, equipment, and supplies in exchange for part of the crops produced?

• nativism.

• sharecropping.

• assimilation.

• tenant farming.

_______________ authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands and sell them as individual plots to Native Americans.

What was the main reason for westward expansion in the U.S.?

• Discovery of precious metals

• Federal land grants

• Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

• The cattle boom