Westward Expansion

America used the idea of Manifest Destiny to

• expand (increase) the rights of African Americans

• expand (increase) the rights of Native Americans

• Acquire/claim new territories

• End the Civil War and Reconstruction

Reservations were lands set aside for Native people.  Which statement was NOT  true about the reservations? 

• America cut funding to the reservations meaning shortage of food and supplies 
• Native Americans were left with no way of hunting 
• Native Americans were thankful for the land and the supplies and were peaceful in their new homes 

What did the Homestead Act do?

• gave 160 acres of free land in the west if you met certain requirements

• gave small plots of land to American Indian families

• built permanent houses on Indian reservations in Oklahoma

What does it mean if you assimilate?

• you adapt and absorb into another culture

• you move from one country to another

• purchase land to settle

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

• Great Awakening

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

• Monroe Doctrine

What technological advancement made traveling across the country much easier?

• Steel Plows

• Barbed Wire

• Sod Houses

• Transcontinental Railroad

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Increased the population of settlers in the west
• All of the above

Manifest Destiny was

• the name of the first train to cross the country

• the first city established in the west

• the belief that America should expand and stretch from coast to coast

• the belief that America was too big and needed to stop expanding

Forcing Native Americans to give up their customs and traditions in order to embrace “white” mainstream American culture is called___________________.

• Extradition

• Assimilation

• Trepidation

• Collaboration

Gave 160 acres of western land to anyone who promised to farm for 5 years

• Homestead Act

• Freeland Act

• Haymarket Act

• Indian Removal Act