Western Expansion Review

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Homestead Act

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10$ fee for an individual to purchase land

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Native Americans were forced to live in

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reservations

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Which of the following is not an effect of the Dawes Act: Native Americans forced to Americanize, Forced them to become farmers, Native Americans became wealthy landowners, Abolished Native American Tribes?

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Native Americans became wealthy landowners

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America's realization of Manifest Destiny leads to the civilized conquering the frontier. Options: Westward Expansion, Progressive Era, Globalization, Urbanization

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Westward Expansion

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A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones

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Nativism

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Which of the following helps to explain the reason for American expansionism in the mid-1800s and early 1900s? Options: The United States sought new markets for agricultural and industrial products, The United States wanted to establish colonies in Asia, Africa, and Australia, United States foreign policy rejected the theory of "Social Darwinism", The United States military wanted to establish overseas bases and recruit from those locations

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The United States sought new markets for agricultural and industrial products

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Which of the following BEST explains how railroads stimulated the national economy in the late 1800s? Options: They increased the number of railroad barons, They allowed a large number of people to enter the United States, They efficiently allowed products to be shipped across the country, They diminished the power of monopolies in the railroad industry

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They efficiently allowed products to be shipped across the country

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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?

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It became quicker to travel from San Francisco to New York.

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Who were the "Exodusters"?

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African Americans who fled the South after Reconstruction.

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Which act 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? Options: the Homestead Act, the Morrill Land Grant Act, the Indian Removal Act, the Dawes Act

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the Homestead Act