Westward Expansion and Native Americans

Who led the Native American forces to victory in the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• General Custer

• Chief Joseph

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism

• Ethnic Enclaves

• Assimilation

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

African Americans who left the South and migrated to the west to find a better life were:

• Exodusters

• Indentured Servants

• Freedmen

• Settlers

Indian children in boarding schools ...

• had to wear uniforms and keep their hair short

• enjoyed their education and life there

• could keep their Indian names

• could see their families very often

What is a reservation?

• Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Americans

• A method of agriculture practiced in arid regions

• The deliberate and systematic extermination of a religious group

• A train route across the United States

Railroads, Windmills, Steel Plows and Barbed Wire can best be described as what?

• Native American Technology
• Items Used to Settle the Appalachian Mountains
• Life on the Great Plains
• Inventions and Adaptations Used to Settle the Great Plains

What was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlers
• Increased trade between the east and west and boosted the economy
• Increased the population of settlers in the west
• All of the above

This image represents which of the following terms?

• Assimilation

• Immigration

• Migration

• Speculation

A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

• Mechanical Reaper

• Manifest Destiny

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act