WorksheetsWestward Expansion / Reconstruction Unit Test
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 25mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following statements are NOT TRUE?
a)
The reservation system and the Dawes Act both resulted in the loss of land by Native Americans and both restricted Native Americans to less desirable lands.
b)
The Dawes Act intended to keep Native Americans separate from whites by allowing tribes to manage lands communally.
c)
The reservation system allowed Native Americans to govern themselves and maintain tribal traditions.
d)
The Dawes Act forced Native Americans to assimilate themselves into white culture and attempted to destroy Native Cultures.
2.
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?
a)
Travel time went from 6 months by wagon or 25 days by stagecoach => to only 4 days by train.
b)
Time Zones were created to keep up with cross-country delivery schedules and time zones are still in existence today.
c)
Settlement of the west increased exponentially as people settled along the railroad, and had a quick way to access western lands.
d)
Americans gained greater appreciation and attitudes of acceptance toward Chinese immigrants as many worked on the railroad.
3.
Which idea gave Americans a sense of entitlement and belief that they were supposed to settle the entire continent and claim the lands from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
a)
Reconstruction
b)
Sectionalism
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Emancipation
4.
Which statement below is the best description of the Cycle of Western Movement?
a)
Native Americans provoke fighting, leading to settlers counter attacking, leading to Indian Wars, leading to eventual peaceful co-existence of whites and Native Americans.
b)
Desirable/Cheap Land becomes available because of a U.S. land acquisition, leading to settlers moving west for land, leading to conflict with Native Americans over the land, leading to eventual defeat of Native Americans and their movement onto less desirable lands.
c)
Gold is discovered, leading to settlement of Native Americans on U.S. land, leading to conflict between settlers and Indians, leading to eventual victory of the settlers.
d)
Land grant acts are passed, leading to settlement of whites on native lands, leading to conflict between Indians and Whites, leading to peaceful co-existence between whites and Indians.
5.
Which of the following was an example of a land grant act?
a)
Homestead Act of 1862
b)
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
c)
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1862
6.
Which group of people was especially interested in leaving the south in order to move west to farm after the Compromise of 1877?
a)
Gold / Silver Miners
b)
Blacks
c)
Widowed Women
d)
Carpetbaggers
7.
What would be considered a "push factor" that caused westward expansion?
a)
Black Exodusters leaving their homes to travel west to escape discrimination and persecution.
b)
Gold Prospectors attracted to California by the possibility of finding gold
c)
Land grant acts causing land rushes for the best farm land.
d)
The potential to find a well-paying job working on the transcontinental railroad.
8.
What were the primary ideas of the "Ghost Dance" movement?
a)
Blacks should be entitled to the same rights as white citizens.
b)
Native Americans should band together to fight off the white settlers and military using the aid of dead warriors, and the buffalo would return after they were victorious.
c)
Native Americans should put their culture to death, assimilate to white culture, and become more like white settlers.
d)
The ghosts of Confederate dead should be used as an inspiration for the hooded KKK participants.
9.
Which group of people came for the Gold Rush to California, were kept from settling on gold fields due to discrimination they faced, and as a result many ended up working dangerous jobs to help create the Central Pacific Railroad?
a)
Irish Immigrants
b)
Native Americans
c)
Exodusters
d)
Chinese Immigrants
10.
Which group tried to help blacks adjust to life after slavery by helping them gain land, understand contracts, and provide education for former slaves who had not been allowed to be educated when they were slaves?
a)
Ku Klux Klan
b)
Exodusters
c)
Freedmen's Bureau
d)
Democrats
11.
What trend continually plays out in the Indian Wars?
a)
White settlers make a discovery of Gold or Silver on Native lands, start to move into Native Lands causing conflict, and the Government and Military refuse aid to the settlers because they are going against peace agreements between the Government and the Native Americans.
b)
White settlers make a discovery of Gold or Silver on Native lands, start to move into Native lands causing conflict, and the U.S. government and military side with the settlers rather than abide by peace treaties, and defeat Native Americans and push them off the Native land.
c)
Native Americans encroach on white settlers land, conflict starts, Native Americans are defeated by settlers and Army Forces.
d)
Native Americans discover Gold in settlers land, move into settlers land, conflict starts, and Native Americans emerge victorious.
12.
Which act was the most inclusive (allowing more people to take advantage of the benefits of the act), by allowing blacks, women, and immigrants to apply for 160 acres of land?
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Northwest Ordinance
c)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
Homestead Act
13.
This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.
a)
The Transcontinental Railroad
b)
The Steamboat
c)
The Stagecoach
d)
The Aeroplane
14.
In 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was finished. It made traveling out west much quicker than ever before.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
Great Awakening
d)
Louisiana Purchase
16.
Which area of land was acquired in 1848 after a conflict with Mexico?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
E
17.
After the Native Americans won the Battle at Little Bighorn, what happened?
a)
conflict grew between the Native Americans and the settlers
b)
the settlers left the Native Americans alone
18.
Why did the white settlers and the American Indians begin having conflicts?
a)
White settlers felt they had the right to settle on American Indian land
b)
American Indians built fences to keep the settlers' cattle out
c)
White settlers kidnapped American Indian children
d)
Gold was discovered on American Indian land
19.
What brought an end to Reconstruction after the disputed presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes?
a)
Compromise of 1877
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
c)
Ku Klux Klan
d)
Jim Crow Laws
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