SG- Unit 5 Quiz

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Which of these helped to further the westward expansion in the United States after 1865?

• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Abolition of Slavery

What took place at Promontory, Utah in 1869?

• completion of Transcontinental Railroad
• massacre of Lakota Sioux
• largest silver strike in American history

Which group of people was primarily responsible for constructing the Transcontinental Railroad from California eastward?

• Chinese
• Apache
• Irish

The Transcontinental Railroads that opened up the West had a devastating effect on...

• cattle ranchers.
• Native Americans.
• U.S. soldiers who had just fought in the Civil War and were now transferred to the West to keep the peace.

What specific evidence supports the statement that "The construction of the transcontinental railroad was disastrous for the Native Americans of the Great Plains"?

• The construction of the transcontinental railroad depended heavily on the labor of Chinese and Irish immigrants.
• Within ten years of its completion, the railroad shipped $50 million worth of freight coast to coast every year.
• The transcontinental railroad decimated the herds of buffalo that the Indians were dependent on; and the railroad drastically reduced Native American land ownership.

Which of these is the 1890 event that is generally considered to be the last major violent Indian conflict in North America?

• Wounded Knee Massacre
• Battle of Horseshoe Bend
• Sand Creek Massacre

Chief Sitting Bull led Sioux warriors at the June 1876 conflict known as

• the Fetterman Massacre.
• the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
• Wounded Knee.

"An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes." - from the Dawes Severalty Act, 1887 Although its stated purpose was to "extend the protection" of the laws of the U.S. to Native Americans, the Dawes Act was passed because the federal government wanted to

• complete its "Manifest Destiny" by claiming territories from other countries.
• claim Indian tribal lands and open them to settlement by non-Indians.
• complete work on the Transcontinental Railroad.

A major goal of the Progressive movement was to

• encourage ties between government and business.
• increase democracy in US government.
• establish a flat rate income tax.