The Impact of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (NPS Article) USHII

What was one of the main purposes of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

• To find a new route to Asia

• To build a railroad

• To map the western territories

• To establish a new government

What did the concept of Manifest Destiny refer to?

• The plan to relocate indigenous populations

• The United States' right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans

• The idea of building a transcontinental railroad

• The belief in the right to expand across the Atlantic Ocean

What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

• A law to protect indigenous lands

• A policy to relocate indigenous populations to the west

• An act to build schools for Native Americans

• A treaty with the Plains tribes

What was the purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887?

• To divide reservations into individual land tracts

• To build railroads across indigenous lands

• To create reservations for Native Americans

• To establish new states in the west

What was one impact of the transcontinental railroad?

• It stopped westward expansion

• It was built by Lewis and Clark

• It increased the use of covered wagons

• It linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

What was the impact of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on indigenous populations?

• It resulted in peace treaties

• It led to the protection of their lands

• It helped preserve their cultural ways

• It symbolized a devastating invasion

What was the purpose of off-reservation boarding schools for American Indian children?

• To prepare them for leadership roles

• To preserve their cultural traditions

• To teach them their native languages

• To make them more 'American'

Who was William H. Ashley?

• A trapper who employed many in the Rocky Mountains

• A military officer who founded boarding schools

• A leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• A government official who signed the Indian Removal Act

What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 do?

• It protected indigenous lands

• It established new states

• It confined Native peoples to reservations

• It gave land to settlers

What was one result of the policies following the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

• Increased cultural exchange with indigenous peoples

• Establishment of new indigenous nations

• Preservation of indigenous lands

• Redistribution of indigenous land to settlers