Unit 2 Test Review

Which describes the Dawes act?

• Native Americans must give up communal living and assimilate to white culture

• Natives must move to less desirable lands

• Former slaves would have access to land in the Great Plains

• Native American culture was important and must be perserved

Time zones, Travel reduction, Taken lands, trade increasing were all examples of which project?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Transcontinental Railroad

Which idea gave Americans a sense of entitlement and belief that they were supposed to settle the entire continent and claim the lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

• Reconstruction
• Sectionalism
• Manifest Destiny
• Emancipation

What is missing from the following sequence?
Gold discovered -> Settlers move west -> Conflict with Natives -> ??

• Peaceful co-existence of whites and Native Americans.

• Native Americans are moved onto less desirable lands.

• Treaties are established to grant tribes ancestral lands

• Land grant acts are passed

Which of the following was an example of a land grant act?

• Homestead Act of 1862
• Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Civil Rights Act of 1862

Which group of people was especially interested in leaving the south in order to move west to farm after the Compromise of 1877?

• Gold / Silver Miners
• Blacks
• Widowed Women
• Carpetbaggers

What would be considered a "push factor" that caused westward expansion?

• Black Exodusters leaving their homes to travel west to escape discrimination and persecution.
• Gold Prospectors attracted to California by the possibility of finding gold
• Land grant acts causing land rushes for the best farm land.
• The potential to find a well-paying job working on the transcontinental railroad.

What were the primary ideas of the "Ghost Dance" movement?

• Blacks should be entitled to the same rights as white citizens.
• Native Americans should band together to fight off the white settlers

• Native Americans should assimilate to white culture

• The ghosts of Confederate dead should be used to defeat the Union

Which group faced discrimination while working to build the Central Pacific Railroad?

• Irish Immigrants
• Native Americans
• Exodusters
• Chinese Immigrants

Group who assisted former slaves in many areas including education

• Ku Klux Klan
• Exodusters
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Democrats