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Topic 01 Westward Expansion Academic Language

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.

a)

Americanization

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Monroe Doctrine

2.

The process of forcing someone to take on American characteristics even when not desired.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Populism

c)

Assimilation

d)

Americanization

3.

a political philosophy where politicians defend the ordinary people against a societies powerful elite​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
populism
Americanization
assimilation
Manifest Destiny
Grange
Monroe Doctrine
4.

foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Monroe Doctrine
Manifest Destiny
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Indian Removal Act
Treaty
5.

Match the following people

a)

American Indian medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War

1.

Sitting Bull

b)

President who passed the Indian Removal act in 1830, actively pursued Indian removal.

2.

Andrew Jackson

c)

Candidate for president who ran in support of many Populist ideas

3.

William Jennings Bryan

d)

A republican politician who helped pass an act intended to assimilate Native Americans into the US.

4.

Henry Dawes

6.

Match the Acts to what they did

a)

act passed by Congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with the Indians in the Southeast

1.

Indian Removal Act

b)

1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots

2.

Dawes Act

c)

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years

3.

Homestead Act

d)

A formal agreement between two or more nations

4.

Treaty

e)

Free land given by the federal government to private companies, especially for building roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges

5.

Land Grant

7.

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

a)

Grange

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Transcontinental Railroad

d)

Land Grant

8.

public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
reservation
land grant
grange
populism
homestead
Homestead Act
Sitting Bull
9.

1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance

a)

Indian Removal Act

b)

Battle of Bull Run

c)

Battle of Wounded Knee

d)

Trail of Tears

10.

farmers' organization formed after the Civil War to organize and advocate for Populist ideas​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Grange
patronizing
Homestead
Treaty
reservation
populism
11.

treating people with an attitude of superiority​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
patronizing
populism
Homestead
reservation
Manifest Destiny
Trail of Tears
12.

forced march of the Cherokee Indians to move west of the Mississippi in the 1830s​ (a)  

Choose from the below words
Trail of Tears
Battle of Wounded Knee
Bull Run
Bataan Death March
Homestead Act
Indian Removal Act
13.

to absorb a group into the culture of another population

a)

Assimilation

b)

Americanization

c)

Populism

d)

Patronizing