Westward Expansion quiz #1 2023

Parcels of land set aside for Native Americans were called

• Reservations
• Communities
• Homestead Act
• Land Rush

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

• Manifest destiny 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

This Apache warrior finally surrendered in 1886.

• Sitting Bull
• Geronimo
• Crazy Horse
• Chief Big Foot

Who tried to lead his people to Canada and after he was captured said "I will fight no more forever."

• Geronimo
• chief Joseph
• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 promise?

• 160 acres of free farm land
• a good job
• a beautiful house
• lakeside property

Why were homesteaders often called sodbusters?

• He like the nickname.
• He had to rip up the prairie sod to make his home and farm
• He grew sod for his cows on the Great Plains

What did many homesteaders live in?

• wooden houses
• sod houses
• farm houses
• apartments

The time frame which people migrated westward was

• 1600s
• 1800s
• 1900s
• 2000s

Most people who went west as homesteaders were 

• farmers 
• miners
• storekeepers
• doctors

Native Americans living on the Great Plains were greatly affected by the loss of the ____.

• cattle
• deer
• buffalo
• sheep