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:

• Assimilation

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

• Westward Expansion

• 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

• Dawes Act

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

• Great Plains

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

• Manifest Destiny

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

Match the following vocabulary words to their definitions:

• Homestead Act

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

• Exoduster

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

• Farmer's Alliances

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

• Grange

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

• Populism

• 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

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

• No voting discrimination of race

• 14th Amendment

• Income tax is legal

• 16th Amendment

• The abolition of slavery

• 17th Amendment

• Popular vote for US Senate

• 15th Amendment

• Equal protection under the Constitution for all

Match the following Amendments to what they do:

• 22nd Amendment

• Repeal of prohibition of alcohol

• 21st Amendment

• Limits the terms presidents can serve

• 26th Amendment

• Women's right to vote

• 19th Amendment

• Minimum voting age is 18

• 18th Amendment

• Prohibition of alcohol

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