Westward Expansion Vocabulary

What is a primary source in history?

• Diary

• Biography

• Article

• Autobiography

What does the term 'Manifest Destiny' refer to?

• The belief that Americans had a God-given right to expand West.

• The end of Native American tribes

• The growth of the American economy

• The completion of the Transcontinental railroad

What was the purpose of the Dawes Act of 1877?

• To divide Native American reservations and give land to individual Native Americans

• To encourage people to move West by giving them free land

• To connect the East and West with a train route

• To build a human-made waterway across New York state

What was the impact of the Homestead Act?

• It caused the near extinction of bison/buffalo

• It led to the end of some Native American tribes

• It resulted in the loss of Native American culture

• It encouraged people to move West by giving them free land

What was the purpose of the Erie Canal?

• To build a human-made waterway across New York state

• To divide Native American reservations and give land to individual Native Americans

• To encourage people to move West by giving them free land

• To connect the East and West with a train route

The painting made in 1872 of a woman is carrying telephone/telegraph wires (communication) and representing bringing culture and technology to the West is titled_________.

• American Woman

• American Progress

• American Painting

• American Angel

 A __________________ is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under agreement with the United States govt; Natives were expected to live an American lifestyle

• Ghetto

• Environment

• Reservation

• City

The following are effects of ___________________.

• -bison/buffalo were almost killed off (extinct)

• -end of some Native American tribes (near genocide)

• -loss of Native American culture

• -population growth and density of America increased

• -American economy grew

• -railroads expanded

• Invention of the automobile

• Creation of steel using the Bessimer process

• Building of the cross-continental railroad

• Westward Expansion

Which of the following were the effects of Westward Expansion on Native Americans? (Can be more than one answer).

• • end of some Native American tribes

• loss of bison in the wild

• • loss of Native American culture

• end of slave trade

What is the name of the human-made waterway built across New York state up the Hudson River in the early 19th century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River opening access to the mid-West?

• New York State Barge Canal

• Oswego Canal

• Cayuga Seneca Canal

• Eerie Canal