Big Ideas
What is the belief that white culture is superior to all others?
White supremacy
This law allowed 21+ heads of households to claim 160 acres of free land if they farmed it for 5+ years.
What is the Homestead Act?
These laws were used to enforce segregation after the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
What components does a thesis require?
RTQ + two sub-claims (sub-arguments)
This chief of the Nez Perce tribe was known for attempting to flee to Canada to escape forced relocation to reservations.
Who was Chief Joseph?
What was the white belief that God approved America expanding to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
This law provided subsidies to construction companies to encourage creation of a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
The 1879 movement of ~20k S. African Americans to Kansas. These ppl hoped to escape S. discrimination and find a better life in the West.
What is the Black Exodus?
What is the Name It / Explain It sentence frame?
In (title) by (author) (he/she/they) claim that (paraphrased AC) (Citation).
ANY forgotten part forfeits the point, next team can steal.
This conflict, between the U.S. Army and the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, led to Custer's death in reaction to white settlers entering the Black Hills.
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
What is another term for anti-immigrant bias?
Nativism
Places the U.S. Army attempted to force Native American tribes to live in small sections of land rather than roam as they used to.
What are reservations?
These were people who left the South for the West in hopes that their lives would improve there.
Who are Exodusters?
What is the Zoom Out 1 (POV) sentence frame?
This chief of the Sioux was known for fighting back against white settlement in ancestral native lands during the 1870s.
Who was Sitting Bull?
What is the process of making ppl from a minority culture change to match the dominant culture?
Assimilation
Who were two of the most famous men who promoted Kansas as a destination for Southern African Americans seeking to escape S. discrimination?
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton & Henry Adams.
What is the Zoom Out 1 (AP) sentence frame?
Given that (author’s name) wrote this to (author’s purpose) it makes sense that (connect author’s purpose to their claim & reasoning).
This piece of legislation divided up communally-held indigenous lands into reservations.
What is the Dawes Act?
What were some of the reasons people moved West? Name 3.
New $ opportunity, free/cheap land, to escape racism, d/t forced relocation, to start a new life, etc.
What were some ways that life changed for white ppl during American westward expansion? Name 3.
Incr. ability to own land, incr. ability to travel across U.S., incr. opportunity in mines, etc.
What were some ways that life changed for Black Americans during Westward Expansion? Name 3.
Incr. opp. to own land, ongoing racism, incr. independence, decr. rights & autonomy in S., relocating to the W., etc.
What is the Zoom Out 2 sentence frame?
It was also important to know that during (time period) (insert OE) was also happening, showing (tie OE to arg).
What were some ways life changed for Indigenous people during American Westward Expansion? Name 3.
What are decreasing buffalo populations, theft of land, declining populations due to fighting & disease, forced assimilation, etc.