U.S. History Exit Ticket 12: Westward Expansion

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

Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Gospel of Wealth

What was the main purpose of the Homestead Act?

• to bring an end to cattle drives
• to encourage settlement on the Great Plains
• to build the Transcontinental Railroad
• to provide a market for steel plows

Which of the following is responsible for the end of the cattle drives?

• Dawes Act

• Buffalo

• Barbed Wire

• Immigration

How did completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 encourage settlement of the American West?

• The railroad led to new discoveries of precious minerals

• The railroad required immense quantities of iron and coal to build

• The railroad frightened Indian tribes, who retreated to reservations

• The railroad made it easier for ranchers and farmers to ship goods back east

What would be the best title for box above?

• Methods Used by forty-Niners to stake Claims

• Sources of Conflict between Ranchers and Farmers.

• How Farmers Adapted to Conditions on the Great Plains.

• How American Indians and Western Farmers Cooperated