American Westward Expansion Quiz (Unit 1)

1862 law that encouraged Western settlements by giving small farmers land

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Act

• Pacific Railway Act

• Dawes Act

1862 law that gave western states land to build agricultural and engineering colleges

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Act

• Pacific Railway Act

• Land Grant Act

1864 attack by U.S. army killing 200 Cheyenne Indians under Black Kettle is known as:

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Washita River

1876 battle where the Sioux Indians killed General Custer and his soldiers

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Fort Sumter

1887 act that gave 160 acres to American Indians after it was surveyed

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Morrill Act

• Indian Removal Act

Belief of Americans that God intended the U.S. to expand westward (coined by John L. O’Sullivan)

• Manifest Destiny

• American Dream

• Westward Expansion

• Divine Right

Booms that shaped the West during the mid to late 1800s included:

• Cattle & Mining Booms

• Industrial Revolution

• Civil War

• Great Depression

Executive department created in 1862 to help farmers

• Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Department of Commerce

• Department of Education

• Department of Health and Human Services

Leader of the Nez Perce

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

• Geronimo

• Crazy Horse

Led the Ghost Dance Movement

• Wovoka

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• Geronimo