The American West

The Homestead Act of 1862

• Provided free land to settlers in the West
• Established the first national park
• Ended slavery in the United States
• Declared war on the Confederate States

Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis

• Said the Frontier made America unique.

• was about manifest destiny.

• dealt with the Civil War.

• created land grants to settlers.

The Frontier was closed in what year?

• 1890
• 1900
• 1880
• 1870

Mining the western United States was dominated by

• large mining corporations

• the government

• unions

• individual prospectors.

The motivation for creating Indian Reservations was

• To provide a place for Native Americans to live
• to convince Native Americans to live like white Americans.

• To preserve wildlife
• To create a source of cheap labor

Lt. Colonel George Custer went to battle with the Sioux at

• The Battle of Little Bighorn
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Battle of Waterloo
• The Battle of Hastings

Buffalo herds were decimated by

• Hunting by settlers
• Natural disasters
• Disease outbreaks
• Climate change

American policy toward Native Americans shifted from sending them west to sending them to

• Europe
• Reservations
• Cities
• Canada

Which animal did Plains Indians depend on for their survival?

• Buffalo
• Deer
• Horse
• Bear

What was an Exoduster?

• A type of dinosaur
• A type of ancient weapon
• African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
• A type of ancient ship