Westward Expansion Vocab

Identify the invention in the image. This invention helped to close off the open range making cattle drives dangerous and contributing to the Open Range War.

• Barbed Wire

• Wooden Fence

• Metal Fence

• Wooden Post

This invention connected east and west causing an economic boom.

• Immigration

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Gilded Age

• Urbanization

The Dawes Act and the boarding schools forced Native Americans to

• Remain

• Assimilate

• Replace

• Mingle

Which law was an Indian policy that broke reservations into individual land plots and harmed the communal structure of Native tribes?

• The Morrill Act
• The Dawes Act
• The Reservation  Reorganization Act
• The Homestead Act

The federal government encouraged settlement in westward lands by passing the--

• Land-Grab Act
• The Dawes Act
• The Morrill Act
• Homestead Act

How did the cowboys move large heard of cattle from Texas to the East?

• By the Transcontinental Railroad
• By  the Pony Express
• By a Cattle Drive

What was the name of the African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War?

• The Reservationists
• The Exodusters
• The Sodbusters
• The Pioneers

Who were the people who claimed land under the Homestead Act?

• Exodusters
• Sodbusters
• Entrepreneur
• Homesteaders

The belief that United States had the right to expand to the Pacific Ocean is called

• Westward Expansion
• Migration
• assimilation
• Manifest Destiny

__________________ was land set aside for Native Americans.

• sodbuster
• vaquero
• reservation
• granger