Chapter 12: Impacts of Westward Expansion

1. President Andrew Jackson offered to pay for Native American land and give them more land west of the Mississippi River if they would leave. What was this process called?

• American Policy
• Indian Removal Act of 1830
• Westward Expansion
• Land Trade

2. As a result of Westward Expansion, what tragic event took the lives of over one third of the Native American people as they moved to Indian reservations?

• The Trail of Tears
• The War for Independence
• The French and Indian War
• The War of 1812

3. What is the cause of the Indian Removal Act?

• The Indians wanted to leave their homeland.
• Sitting Bull urged his tribe to move.
• American settlers thought they could better use the land.
• George Custer signed it into law.

4. Who led an army and pursued Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne Indians to force them onto reservations?

• President Andrew Jackson
• Sitting Bull
• Lewis and Clark
• George Custer

5. Who won the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• George Custer
• Native Americans

• U.S. Military
• Great Britain

6. What is a tract of public land set aside for Native Americans?

• skirmish
• relocation
• reservation
• Trail of Tears

7. What is a minor fight in a bigger war?

• skirmish
• relocation
• reservation
• Trail of Tears

8-10. Put a check mark next to the statements below that describe how Native Americans were impacted by westward expansion. (CHOOSE THREE)

• Native Americans' major food source was wiped out.

• American Indians were given plots of land to farm in their homelands
• Thousands of Cherokee Indians died while being forced to move to Oklahoma.
• Many Native Americans died from diseases carried by settlers and soldiers.

1. Who began attacking American settlers homes and villages in the Northwest Territory?

• France
• Native Americans

• Canada
• other American settlers

2. What are two reasons why the Native Americans attacked the American settlers?

• settlers were pushing Native Americans off their land
• settlers were not willing to trade goods with them
• Native Americans had weapons like them
• settlers were hunting all the Native Americans food source