Westward Migration Check-In

Which TWO are positive impacts of the Louisiana Purchase?

• Increase in trade

• More war

• Access to more natural resources

• We could invade Europe now

The main idea of this painting is to show:

• How this process will lead to war

• The positive impact that Westward migration will have

• How Americans want independence from Britain

• Why the cities were so bad for everyone

What are two major impacts of Westward Migration on Native Americans

• More rights for Native Americans

• Loss of their homelands

• An increase in happiness

• Cultural decline

What policy from US government got American settlers interested in moving out West?

• Homestead Act

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The American Revolution

• Promise of gold

What resource was found on Cherokee land that led to land lotteries and the loss of their homelands?

• Cotton

• Gold

• Money

• Hope

What is one key difference between indentured servants and those who were enslaved?

• Those who were enslaved are eligible for a large cash award when freed

• All indentured servants could get marries

• Indentured servants signed contracts and had a time limit

• Slaves had more rights

Under the Dawes Act, Native Americans had to change the the they used their: (From public to private)

• Manners

• Family history

• Land

• Weapons

What is the process of changing one's culture (Native Americans went through this at boarding schools)

• Sublimation

• Exhaustion

• Hyperculturalism

• Assimilation

Where were Native Americans moved to under the Indian Removal Act?

• To Africa

• Caribbean

• West of the Mississippi

• Canada

The Trail of Tears was the forced march of Native Americans, but no one died on the march itself.

• True

• False