Manifest Destiny

Question 1

What is Manifest Destiny?

Answer 1

The belief that it was Americans’ God- given right to expand “from sea to shining sea”

Question 2

What is the Transcontinental Railroad:

Answer 2

A railroad that connected the railroads in the east to the West

Question 3

What is the “Golden Spike”:

Answer 3

The final spike laid at Promontory Point, Utah, that connected the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, completing the US’s First Transcontinental Railroad

Question 4

What is the Homestead Act:

Answer 4

An act passed by Congress that encouraged settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers

Question 5

What is a boomtown

Answer 5

Fast growing population

Question 6

What is a ghosttown

Answer 6

slow growing population

Question 7

What is the The Dawes Act

Answer 7

Broke up Native reservations in order to blend with American society.

Question 8

What is assimilation

Answer 8

blending of Native Americans with american society

Question 9

What was the Carlisle Indian Boarding School

Answer 9

It was one of the boarding schools which assimilated Natives with Americans