Westward Expansion Unit Study Guide

own individual sections of reservation land

As a result of the Dawes Act, American Indians in the Great Plains were effectively forced to

raise grain prices

Founded in 1867, the National Grange organization initially helped farmers unite and establish cooperatives. Through these cooperatives, farmers could do everything except

It provided each settler with 160 acres of land

How did some families benefit from the Homestead Act of 1826?

Native Americans were forced onto reservations while settlers took their land

How did the government's policy of manifest destiny affect Native Americans living on the plains in the late 1800s?

The enclosure of the plains into farms and ranches ended the era of the great cattle drives from Texas to railroads in Kansas and Nebraska

How did the invention of barbed wire transform the economy of the American West in the 1870s and 1800s?

Populists

In the nineteenth century, many farmers responded to falling grain prices by joining with the

attract more migrants to the West

One effect of the building of the transcontinental railroad was to

eventual destruction of the Native American's way of life

One effect railroads had on Native Americans living in the western United States was the

temporary but severe limitations on the entry of Chinese immigrants

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 resulted in

threatening their communal lifestyle

The Dawes Act impacted American Indians by

mining and cattle ranching

The economy and settlement of the West in the late nineteenth century were shaped by which industries?

assimilate Native Americans

The intent of the Dawes Severalty Act, passed by Congress in 1887, was to

Many land allotments were given or sold to people who were not American Indians

What was an effect of the Dawes Act of 1887?

to increase the money supply by coining silver

What was one of the MAIN goals of the Populist party in the last nineteenth century?

economic opportunity

What was the MAJOR reason people migrated to the western United States during the nineteenth century?

widespread use of barbed wire fencing

Which factor contributed to the end of the open range in the American West?

railroads

Which method of transportation contributed MOST to westward migration in the late nineteenth century?

railroads

Which technological development had the greatest impact on patterns of settlement in the American West?

to find employment

Why did large numbers of Chinese immigrants come to the American West Coast beginning in the mid-nineteenth century?

It offered free land to farmers who would improve it within 5 years

Why did the Homestead Act attract farmers to the frontier?