Westward Expansion Quiz

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

• Monroe Doctrine

• Louisiana Purchase

• Manifest Destiny

• Great Awakening

Match the following vocab words with their definitions:

• Manifest Destiny

• Plan under which Native Americans would give up their way of life and become Americanized

• Dawes Act

• Broke up the reservations and gave some reservation land to individual Native Americans - 160 acres to each head of household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult

• Assimilation

• The expansion of the US into the territory west of the Mississippi River

• Westward Expansion

• The grassland extending though the west-central portion of the US

• Great Plains

• The belief that it was our duty to settle the continent, conquer, and prosper

Match the following vocabulary words to their definitions:

• Homestead Act

• African-Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas

• Grange

• movement of the people, born with the founding of the Populists 1892

• Exoduster

• Sympathized with farmers, sent lecturers, from town to town to educate people about topics such as lower interest rates on loans and government control over railroads and banks

• Farmer's Alliances

• Offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household

• Populism

• Original purpose was to provide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families

What act allowed the national government to require Native Americans to give up their land?

• Indian Removal Act

• Civilization Act

• Manifest Destiny Act

• Indian Territory Act

The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to ​ (a)  

• Promote cultural assimilation of American Indians
• Turn reservations into corporate farmland
• End warfare between Indians and the military
• Promote American Indian investment in industry

Which of the following contributed most to increase settlement of the Great Plains?

• The availability of buffalo

• The discovery of precious metals

• A series of federal land grants

• A decrease in agricultural production

Which statement describes how the Transcontinental Railroad affected the United States during the late 1800s?

• The railroad contributed to the rapid settlement and growth of towns in the west

• The railroad caused a rapid decline in agriculture and mining in the west

• The railroad contributed to population growth and increased sharecropping in the east

• The railroad prompted Congress to buy land and create national parks in the east

Match the following Amendments to what they do:

• 13th Amendment

• Income tax is legal

• 17th Amendment

• Popular vote for US Senate

• 16th Amendment

• The abolition of slavery

• 14th Amendment

• Equal protection under the Constitution for all

• 15th Amendment

• No voting discrimination of race

Match the following Amendments to what they do:

• 26th Amendment

• Prohibition of alcohol

• 21st Amendment

• Limits the terms presidents can serve

• 22nd Amendment

• Minimum voting age is 18

• 18th Amendment

• Repeal of prohibition of alcohol

• 19th Amendment

• Women's right to vote

How did the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad contribute to the settlement of the West?

• By raising money to build factories along the routes

• By providing people with access to essential goods

• By giving funds to local leaders to build schools

• By establishing military forts along the routes