Westward Expansion Before the Gilded Age

How did the railroad foster economic growth in the development of the west?

• By providing sharecroppers with a means of travel

• By providing farmers with the means of transporting their crops to market

• By providing Native Americans a means to sell fur

• By eliminating the Bison to sell in American Markets

African Americans who moved West and North after Reconstruction were known as

• Exodusters

• Immigrants

• Slaves

• Scalawags

The Native Americans faced many hardships during western settlement, which one was NOT a hardship they faced?

• Destruction of the bison population

• Being forced onto Reservations

• Farmers claiming their land

• Being forced into slavery on Southern Plantations

What was the view on Native American Children by reformers?

• They should learn the tribal and cultural ways

• They should learn the ways of a white man

• They should get jobs in American Factories

• They were savages and could not be saved

The Great plains were incredibly hard to settle due to difficulty farming. What helped change this problem?

• The development of new technology

• New land given for free

• Native American Removal

• Transportation

The Homestead Act gave land to approximately 300,000 people, but how many Homesteads failed?

• 10%

• 25%

• 60%

• 90%

The Transcontinental Railroad impacted the development of the west in all the following ways EXCEPT

• attracting immigrant settlers

• Providing a cheaper and faster means of travel

• attracting assimilated Native Americans to the East

• transporting agricultural goods

The Leader of the Sioux who fought against the US Army in the Great Plains Wars

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo

• George Armstrong Custer

Completed in 1869, this linked the East and West Coasts of the US and helped move people, products, and raw materials across the continent

• Erie Canal

• Norfolk-Southern Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Panama Canal

This was a battle between between the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes and the US soldiers lead by Colonel Custer in which the US soldiers were defeated by the Native Americans

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Trail of Tears

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Little BigHorn