Westward Expansion

What piece of legislation granted free land in the Great Plains and primarily attracted farmers?

• The Homestead Act

• The Interstate Commerce Act

• The Dawes Act

• The American Indian Citizenship Act

What Act (law) restricted immigration from China?

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• American Indian Citizenship Act

What precious metal was found in California in 1849, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?

• Platinum

• Coal

• Silver

• Gold

What law forced Native Americans into assimilation and onto reservations?

• The American Indian Citizenship Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Meat Inspection Act

This Act finally granted Native Americans Citizenship to those born in the U.S. ...

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Espionage Act

• American Indian Citizenship Act

What is another word for assimilation?

• Isolation

• Americanization

• Urbanization

• Saturation

What contributed MOST to the settlement of the Great Plains?

• transcontinental railroad

• gold rush

• Homestead Act...Land Grants

• Indian Wars

Assimilation is the process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of another group or nation.

• True

• False

Why was immigration from China restricted?

• Fear of losing jobs to the Chinese

• Fear of Communism

• Just because

• Fear of creating a dictatorship

This was home to Native Americans until they were forcibly moved onto reservations...

• Yukon River

• Great Plains

• Grand Canyon

• Blue Lagoon