Check for Understanding UNIT 7

Which development led to the other three?*

• United States troops fought a series of battles with Native American Indians
• The buffalo population was greatly decreased.
• Thousands of settlers migrated west of the Mississippi River.
• Native American Indians were forced to move to reservations.

Economic opportunity, improvement in transportation, and a belief in Manifest Destiny were all reasons that...

• The English settled the 13 colonies region
• Thousands of settlers migrated west of the Mississippi River.
• The French sold the Louisiana Territory
• Thousands of settlers moved east of the Appalachian Mountains

What 2 explorers were sent to explore the Louisiana territory?

• Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan
• John Adams and George Washington
• Key and Jordan Keegan-Michael Peele
• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

What answer best defines the term Manifest Destiny?

• paying Native American Indians a fair price for their land.
• The process of purchasing the Louisiana Territory from the French
• encouraging Native American Indians to take jobs in factories.
• America's God-given right to settle North America

What forces pushed American settlers to move West?

• Manifest Destiny
• New Inventions/Transportation Methods
• Population Growth
• All of the above

The relationship between Native Americans and the United States Reciprocal.

• True
• False

"The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their homes and encamped at the forts and military places, all over the nation. . . . The property of many has been taken and sold before their eyes for almost nothing.” This quote describes events connected with the...

• use of violence against forty-niners during the California Gold Rush.
• passage of the Indian Removal Act under President Andrew Jackson.
• Lewis and Clark Expedition of the Louisiana Territory.
• conflict between the U.S. and Mexico during the Mexican War.

Which action toward Native American Indians did the United States government take between 1820 and 1840?

• paying Native American Indians a fair price for their land.
• passing a law giving all Native American Indians United States citizenship.
• encouraging Native American Indians to take jobs in factories.
• removing Native American Indians from their tribal lands and placing them on reservations.

What US policy forced Native Americans to adapt to the mainstream culture by forcibly changing their clothes, hair, religion and lifestyle?

• Reservation
• Sectionalism
• Annihilation
• Assimilation

This battle is significant because it was the last Native American victory.

• Little Bighorn
• Wounded Knee
• Bunker Hill
• Bull Run