Western Expansion Vocab

Which term describes the 19th-century belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent?

• Assimilation

• Expansion

• Manifest Destiny

• Dawes Act

The process of extracting gold from streams and riverbeds using pans or simple machines is known as:

• Hydraulic mining

• Hard-rock mining

• Placer mining

• Assimilation

Which legislation aimed to break up tribal lands and distribute them to individual Native Americans?

• Manifest Destiny

• Dawes Act

• Expansion Act

• Mining Act

The type of mining that uses high-pressure water jets to dislodge rock material or move sediment is called:

• Placer mining

• Hard-rock mining

• Cow town mining

• Hydraulic mining

Frontier settlements that became centers for the cattle trade, often characterized by saloons, gambling, and lawlessness, were known as:

• Mining towns

• Cow towns

• Expansion cities

• Industrial hubs

What was the Homestead Act of 1862?

• a law that encouraged Native Americans to settle in the West

• An act that provided free land to settlers in the Western territories

• A regulation that restricted farming in the Great Plains

• A treaty between the United States and Mexico

"Soddies" were:

• A type of cattle bred for harsh prairie conditions

• Native American tribes who resisted Western expansion

• Tools used for digging wells in arid regions

• Houses built from blocks of prairie turf or sod

Small, family-owned plots of landBonanza farms were characterized by

• Small, family-owned plots of land

• Diverse crop rotation and sustainable farming practices

• Intensive irrigation systems in desert areas

• Large-scale, commercial agricultural operations