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The belief that America had the God-given right to expand across the continent.
a) California Gold Rush
b) Homestead Act
c) Manifest Destiny
d) Dawes Act

Over 40,000 people migrated west to strike it rich during the
a) California Gold Rush
b) Homestead Act
c) Manifest Destiny
d) Dawes Act

This law gave 160 acres to anyone who was willing to settle land in the west.
a) Dawes Act
b) Manifest Destiny
c) Homestead Act
d) California Gold Rush

Cowboys moved herds of cattle from ranches to train stations to be shipped back east
a) Cattle Drives
b) Buffalo herds
c) Great Plains
d) California Gold Rush

US law that attempted to Americanize Indians by giving them individual plots of land to farm
a) Great Plains
b) Homestead Act
c) Manifest Destiny
d) Dawes Act

used to fence land
a) windmills
b) chain link
c) barbed wire
d) steel plow

when these were killed it ruined life for the Plains Indians
a) Buffalo
b) Cattle
c) Deer
d) Dinosaurs

Plots of land given to native Americans as settlers moved west
a) Plantations
b) Reservations
c) Farms
d) Ranches

Cattle drives increased when the demand for this increased
a) beef
b) leather
c) cowboys
d) milk

The settlers tried to teach the Native Americans how to read, write, dress and farm in an attempt to
a) Kill them
b) Americanize them
c) learn from them
d) make them smarter

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