Manifest Destiny

This painting best illustrates which of the following concepts?

• Manifest Destiny

• Popular Sovereignty

• Transcendentalism

• Abolitionism

Which statement best defines the concept of Manifest Destiny?

• The government of the United States should expand military control around the world.

• The government of the United States should move Native Americans to reservations.

• The people of the United States are entitled to expand across the continent.

• The people of the United States are filled with the creative energy of immigrants.

These maps show the railroad lines in two different years.

How did the railroad industry change between 1860 and 1880?

Choose ALL that apply.

• More tracks were laid in the West.

• Fewer tracks were laid in the North.

• Fewer tracks were laid in the East.

• More tracks were laid in the Midwest.

This chart shows the process of the open range system of cattle ranching.

What factor had the greatest impact on the end of this system?

• Because of the difficult lifestyle, people were unwilling to be cowboys

• Settlers in the area used barbed wire to fence in their lands.

• Railroad companies refused to allow cattle to cross tracks.

• Ranchers bred a new type of cattle that was more docile and did not roam as much.

Which of the following events in the post-Civil War era is a cause of the other three?

• completion of the transcontinental railroad

• creation of national markets

• destruction of the buffalo

• development of towns and cities throughout the West

Which legislative act had the greatest impact in encouraging Americans to move west after its passage in 1862?

• Dawes Act

• Quota Act

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

This chart shows a trend in the last part of the 19th century.

How did the United States government contribute to this trend?

• It sold iron and steel to the railroad companies at reduced prices.

• It provided land grants to railroad companies.

• It paid the salaries of Civil War veterans who worked on railroad construction.

• It passed legislation requiring track construction.

The main motivation of the U.S. government in passing the Homestead Act of 1862 was to ___________.

• to collect additional tax revenue from farmers on the Great Plains

• to make a profit by selling western lands to new immigrants

• to provide land to companies willing to build a railroad

• to encourage people to settle and farm western lands

This chart outlines some of the effects of the railroad industry.

What conclusion can be drawn from this chart?

• The benefits of railroad construction were minimal and only impacted isolated areas of the country.

• Railroad construction hurt the economy by depleting resources that could be used elsewhere.

• Small towns and rural areas were more impacted by the growth of the railroads than urban areas.

• Growth in the railroad industry stimulated economic development in the nation.

This illustration was published in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper in the late 1800s.

Based on this illustration, what was one consequence of the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

• There was a decrease in the buffalo population as people hunted them for sport rather than for food.

• There was an increase in the overall populations of buffalo and other wild animals.

• There was an increase in food surpluses for Native Americans as buffalo hunting became more popular.

• There was a decrease in the need for Native Americans to use buffalo for food and other resources.