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What term describes the belief that the expansion of the United States across the continent was both justified and inevitable?

• Land grant

     

  
  

•     Manifest Destiny

•    Homestead Act 1862

•     Dawes Act of 1887

 Who coined the term "Manifest Destiny" in the 1840s?

• Vaqueros

    

     

  
  

•   Claimant

• John O’Sullivan

•     Speculators

What legislation provided 160 acres of public land to settlers willing to improve and live on the land for five years?

•  Homestead Act 1862

     

  
  

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Land grants

•        Panacea

 What term refers to individuals who worked as cattle herders and helped shape the ranching culture in the American West?

• A) Vaqueros

    

     

     

  
  

•  B) Claimant

• C) Speculators

• D) Land grants

 What was the 19th-century policy aimed at assimilating Native American tribes by dividing their lands into individual parcels?

•   A) Manifest Destiny

   

       

•   B) Transcontinental Railroad

• C) Dawes Act of 1887

•  D) Speculators

 What was the term for the vast stretches of land given by the government to encourage the building of railroads?

•  A) Claimant

    

     

     
  

•  B) Panacea

• C) Land grants

• D) Homestead Act 1862

 What term describes the idea that the expansion of the United States was a solution or remedy for various problems?

•   A) Manifest Destiny

     

     

     

• B) Transcontinental Railroad

• C) Speculators

• D) Panacea

What was the name of the government agency established to regulate and oversee railroad and interstate commerce in the late 19th century?

• A) Assimilation

     

     

     D) Battle of Little Big Horn

  
  

• B) Wounded Knee

• C) The Interstate Commerce Commission

• D) Battle of Little Big Horn

 Which term refers to the process of Native American tribes adopting the culture and lifestyle of European Americans during the 19th century?

•  A) The Interstate Commerce Commission

    

       

•  B) Assimilation

•  C) Carlisle Indian Industrial School

• D) Wounded Knee

What was the name of the school founded by Richard Henry Pratt in 1879, which aimed to assimilate Native American children into American society by teaching them English and vocational skills?

•  A) Battle of Little Big Horn

   

       

•   B) Assimilation

•  C) Carlisle Indian Industrial School

• D) Wounded Knee