Lesson 2-Manifest Destiny and the West

Question 1

Female West sharpshooter

Answer 1

Annie Oakley

Question 2

Colorado militia attacks and kills 270 Cheyenne already surrendered.

Answer 2

Sand Creek Massacre

Question 3

Allowed male citizens to claim federally owned lands in the West and to “improve” the land with the chance of eventually owning it.

Answer 3

The Homestead Act

Question 4

Series of forced Navajo marches to the reservation at Bosque Redondo.

Answer 4

The Long Walk

Question 5

Fought U.S. Cavalry for a while until succuming to hunger and exhaustion.

Answer 5

Chief Joseph and Nez Perce

Question 6

Rail that linked the west cost with the rail networks of the eastern US

Answer 6

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 7

The midwestern city that most benefited from the bridging of western resources and eastern capital with a huge population increase.

Answer 7

Chicago

Question 8

Land given to Native Americans to encourage them to assimilate through learning to farm.

Answer 8

The Dawes Act

Question 9

Murder of Sitting Bull at the Standing Rock Reservation in 1890. Massacred people while perused by Federals.

Answer 9

Wounded Knee

Question 10

American democracy created by the frontier

Answer 10

The Frontier Thesis