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Western Expansion Review

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 4hrs 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Homestead Act 
a)
Peace Treaty with the Native Americans 
b)
Allowed Boomers and Sooners to settle
c)
Allowed Railroads to be built in the west 
d)
10$ fee for an individual to purchase land 
2.
How did railroads impact Native Americans?
a)
They helped them thrive
b)
They made them wealthy
c)
They altered their way of life and took their land
d)
They had minimal effect on them
3.
Native Americans were forced to live in 
a)
ghettos
b)
teepees
c)
farms
d)
reservations
4.
Which of the following is not an effect of the Dawes Act.
a)
Native Americans forced to Americanize
b)
Forced them to become farmers
c)
Native Americans became wealthy landowners
d)
Abolished Native American Tribes
5.
America's realization of Manifest Destiny leads to the civilized conquering the frontier.
a)
Westward Expansion
b)
Progressive Era
c)
Globalization
d)
Urbanization
6.
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
a)
Nationalism
b)
Nativism
c)
Acculturation
d)
Assimilation
7.
Which of the following helps to explain the reason for American expansionism in the mid-1800s and early 1900s?
a)
The United States sought new markets for agricultural and industrial products
b)
The United States wanted to establish colonies in Asia, Africa, and Australia
c)
United States foreign policy rejected the theory of "Social Darwinism
d)
The United States military wanted to establish overseas bases and recruit from those locations
8.
Which of the following BEST explains how railroads stimulated the national economy in the late 1800s?
a)
They increased the number of railroad barons
b)
They allowed a large number of people to enter the United States
c)
They efficiently allowed products to be shipped across the country
d)
They diminished the power of monopolies in the railroad industry
9.
In the 1860s, a railroad was built connecting the East Coast of the United States with the West Coast. What was one important effect of this?
a)
It took longer to travel from San Francisco to New York
b)
People did not use any other form of transportation
c)
It became quicker to travel from San Francisco to New York
d)
People could now fly by airplane to get to places more quickly
10.
What common trait was shared by different Plains Indian cultures?
a)
They are preferred to live on reservations.
b)
They all depended on the buffalo as a food source.
c)
They all viewed nature as sacred.
d)
They all wanted to adapt to the civilization of the whites.
11.
Who were the "Exodusters"?
a)
Mexican Americans who fled after the Mexican-American War
b)
African Americans who fled the South after Reconstruction
c)
Chinese Americans who fled the North after the Gold Rush
d)
Native Americans who fled the East after the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
12.
Which of the following acts of Congress contributed to an increase in settlement in the West by granting free land to individuals after they had lived on it for five years?
a)
the Homestead Act
b)
the Morrill Land Grant Act
c)
the Indian Removal Act
d)
the Dawes Act
13.
The cattle boom on the Great Plains ended in part because 
a)
many ranchers preferred raising sheep. 
b)
too few people were willing to risk investment. 
c)
new breeds of cattle made ranching less profitable.
d)
severe weather conditions and overproduction wiped out many ranchers. 
14.
An agricultural system in the South following the Civil War in which a landowner and/or creditor provided a person (without money) access  to land, equipment, and supplies in exchange for part of the crops produced was 
a)
nativism
b)
assimilation.
c)
sharecropping
d)
tenant farming
15.

Choose the 4 ways American Indians were impacted by the arrival of the pioneers:

a)

Opposition by the Native Americans

b)

Forced relocation from traditional lands to reservations

c)

Reduced population through warfare and disease

d)

Made friends with the Native Americans

e)

Assimilation attempts and lifesytle changes

16.

Choose the 1 way American Indians were impacted by the arrival of the pioneers:

a)

Made friends with Native Americans

b)

Reduced their homelands through treaties that were broken

17.

Choose the 3 reasons for the Westward Expansion:

a)

Possibility of obtaining wealth (discovery of gold and silver)

b)

Available work in factories

c)

A desire for adventure

d)

Opportunties to own land

18.

___________ was discovered and pioneers hoped to become wealthy.

a)

Gold

b)

Coins

c)

Feathers

19.

The belief that the United States was destined to stretch all the way across the continent of North America

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Bill of Rights

c)

Mexican-American War

d)

Gold Rush

20.
As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans?
a)
They agreed to give up their land.
b)
They were given their choice of where to live.
c)
They were forced to live in reservations.
d)
They voluntarily moved to Canada and Mexico.
21.

The name given to the group of pioneers who went to California during the Gold Rush

a)

Forty Niners

b)

Gold diggers

c)

Golden Arches

d)

Seventy Sixers

22.

Which of the following best characterizes the era of Western Expansion in the late nineteenth century?

a)

Freednmen’s goals conflicted with those of Republican leaders, who wanted cotton to return high dividends

b)

Nationwide movements for workers’ rights arose in response to industrialization and exploitation.

c)

Immigrants were drawn to rapid industrialization and production in a new mass consumer culture.

d)

Homesteaders accelerated the transformation of the western environments by converting grasslands for agriculture.

23.

The Homestead Act of 1862 contributed most directly to the—

a)

growth of large urban areas

b)

establishment of agricultural colleges

c)

migration of Chinese immigrants to work on the railroads

d)

increase in conflict between Native American and settlers

24.

What would be an appropriate title for this list:

-Built sod houses

-Used barbed wire fences

-Burned cow and buffalo chips for fuel

a)

Nomadic Life for American Indians

b)

Causes of the Range Wars

c)

Cooperation Between American Indians and Farmers

d)

Adaptations to Life on the Great Plains

25.

-Attend Native American Schools

-Learn English

-Live in designated areas

-Adapt to farming


QUESTION: Which of the following is best supported by the excerpt?

a)

Assimilation and Americanization of Native Americans

b)

Activation of Native American military forces

c)

Native American Tribes obtaining more land to continue their traditional way of life

d)

Native Americans' eagerness to adapt to a new life

26.

What was the most common way for white settlers to travel the Oregon Trail?

a)

By covered wagon

b)

By foot

c)

By train

d)

On horseback

27.

If you were an American Indian leader, and you refused to move off of your land, what's the most likely thing that would happen to you?

a)

The U.S. government would leave you alone

b)

American soldiers would show up and force you to move

c)

Your land would be declared an Indian Reservation

d)

You would be taken to court by the U.S. government

28.

Homesteading laws were designed to attract which of the following groups?

a)

Gold miners

b)

Farmers

c)

Trappers

d)

Mountain Men

29.
Which of the following was a pull factor for America in the 1840s?
a)
Advanced Medical Care
b)
Crop Failures
c)
Abundant Land
30.
War, poverty, and discrimination are all examples of.......
a)
Pull Factors
b)
Push Factors
c)
Jump Factors
d)
Falling Factors
31.
What act divided up Indian reservations into plots of land to be given to the Indian families?
a)
Hayes Act
b)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
c)
Bland-Allison Act
d)
Dawes Act
32.
American farmers were encouraged to settle the West because of what law?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Pendleton Act
c)
National Farming Act
d)
Sharecropping Act
33.
What group of people wanted to limit immigration in the US in the 1900s?
a)
Labor Unions
b)
Nativists
c)
Business Owners
34.
Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains?
a)
steel plow
b)
reaper
c)
windmill
d)
barbed wire
35.
The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to--
a)
promote cultural assimilation of American Indians.
b)
turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmlands.
c)
end warfare between American Indians and the U.S. military.
d)
promote American Indian investment in private industry.
36.
Linked East coast of United States to West coast 
a)
Transcontinental Airline 
b)
 Transcontinental Road
c)
Transcontinental Bus Route 
d)
Transcontinental Railroad
37.
Based on this poster, which is an accurate statement?
a)
Immigrants were encouraged to learn to speak English.
b)
Granite City had laws prohibiting immigrants from moving there.
c)
The people in the poster were native-born Americans.
d)
Granite City encouraged diversity in its immigrant population.
38.

Which of the following identifies the motives for Chinese moving West?

a)

working on ranches and with cattle

b)

Women & children immigrating to join husbands/fathers

c)

Employment working on the Transcontinental Railroad

d)

discrimination by the Chinese government

39.

Which of the following identifies the motives for Miners moving West?

a)

Many people "struck it rich"

b)

Rumors of quantities of gold and silver in certain locations

c)

strikes in company towns led to a dangerous environment

d)

Independent miners were always successful

40.
What is Manifest Destiny?
a)
The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America
b)
The belief that their destiny was to manifest
c)
A religious term used to explain how to be saved
41.
Which of the following contributed to the westward expansion of the United States?
a)
European warships attacked the eastern seaboard, forcing citizens to move westward for safety.
b)
Most of the land east of the Mississippi River was not suitable for farming.
c)
Many Americans felt it was their right and duty to move westward.
d)
The standard of living on the Pacific Coast was very high, so many people wanted to move there.
42.
Which of the following inventions brought an end to the open range on the Great Plains?
a)
steel plow
b)
reaper
c)
windmill
d)
barbed wire
43.

The aim of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

a)

Restore previously taken land to Native American tribes

b)

Assimilate Native Americans into American culture

c)

End all government contact with Native Americans

d)

Maintain traditional Native American cultures

44.

Which of the following were hardships that settlers on the Great Plains faced?

a)

too many trees and rain

b)

scorching summers and drought

c)

crowded cities and factories

d)

land and homes were too expensive

45.

This vocabulary word means to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population.

a)

Assimilate

b)

Allotment

c)

Annuities

46.
The pioneers that took advantage of the Homestead Act were called...
a)
homesteaders
b)
ranchers
c)
sodbusters
d)
scalawags
47.
Which of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s?
a)
Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auction.
b)
Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to public property through homesteading.
c)
Speculators bought large parcels of land and built factory towns to attract new immigrants.
d)
Native Americans sold most of their tribal land directly to railroad companies.
48.
The first railroad to cross the United States was the....
a)
Union Pacific Railroad
b)
Central Pacific Railroad
c)
Missouri Railroad
d)
Transcontinental Railroad
49.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move
a)
to Oklahoma
b)
to Florida
c)
to the Louisiana Purchase
d)
to Canada
50.
_________  in 1830 authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi river to lands in the west.
a)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
b)
Worcester v. Georgia
c)
Indian Removal Act
d)
None of the above
51.
Which of the following was the Cherokee’s 800 mile march to the indian territory where ¼ of the Cherokee tribe died on the march to the land?
a)
Second Seminole War
b)
Trail of Tears
c)
Blackhawk
d)
Cherokee resistance

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