1.2 Westward Expansion

Frederick Jackson Turner believed the West was responsible for key aspects of U.S. culture, including...

• Individualism

• Economic Mobility

• Democracy

• Immigration

Most settlers went west in kinds of groups as a part of a family or groups of ...

How did the federal government encourage westward migration?

In what two key ways were railroads essential for people who had already gone west?

• brought out the goods that people needed

• enabled trade with england

• took back the crops/livestock being produced out west

• helped stop the civil war

What primary motivation caused the efforts to move Native Americans off their land?

During which decades did a steady stream of settlers mean a series of bloody conflicts to displace Native Americans?

• 1850s through 1890

• 1750s trough 1790s

• 1820s through 1870s

• 99 through 2000s

. Which animal on the Great Plains was nearly driven to extinction as part of the effort to eradicate the Native American way of life?

What happened to Native American land as a result of the Dawes Act?

What was the main message of the Mystery Document?

How did the Bureau of Indian Affairs attempt cultural genocide?

• Forced to attend boarding school

• Forced to give up their Native Language

• Forced to give up their clothing

• Denied access to their families