Vocabulary
This is another word for a foreign, independent nation.
What is a sovereign nation?
This is an area of land set aside by different treaties for different Native tribes.
What is a reservation?
This is the name of the treaty between the U.S. and England that settled the U.S. - Canada border and established the Oregon Territory.
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This treaty was signed on January 26, 1855, in the Kitsap Peninsula. It was signed by the Washington Territory governor, Issac Stevens and three Native tribes.
What is the Treaty of Point No Point?
After the Civil War, the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads represented this for the American people.
What is unity?
This is an act given by Congress to a territory that allows them to write a constitution and apply for statehood.
What is an enabling act?
This is one of the methods Americans expected Natives to learn despite their traditions. This was meant to take up less land.
What is European farming techniques?
This is the law that set the rules for admission for the first new states (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin0, which also is the model for most laws created by Congress to admit states.
What is the 1787 Northwest Ordinance?
This is the amount of money the U.S. would pay the Native Americans for their land as established in the Treaty of Point No Point.
This act, passed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, authorized the construction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This was an act passed by Congress in 1850 that allowed for American settlers to gain land in the Oregon Territory before it was split into Idaho and Washington.
What is the Donation Land Act?
This act in 1830 took a more aggressive approach to gaining land for the U.S. It forcefully removed five Native tribes and placed them in reservations. The walk to the reservations was called the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This is the minimum population necessary to be considered an organized territory.
What is 5,000 people?
This is the amount of land set aside for each Native tribe's reservation. This is the main drawback of this amount of land. (2 answers)
What is 3800 acres and the U.S. government could place multiple tribes on the same reservation?
These two events are largely the reason behind the idea of extending a railroad into the California territory. (2 answers)
What is the Mexican-American War and the discovery of gold in the west?
This is the process where a minority group assumes or takes on the behavior, values, rituals, and beliefs of a majority group.
What is cultural assimilation?
This is the main tactic used by the U.S. to forcefully assimilate Native people. They used this method because it was easier to assimilate children than adults.
What is Native school / Native boarding school?
This is the minimum population necessary to be considered for an enabling act and statehood.
What is 60,000 people?
This is one way the U.S. forced the Natives to be dependent on the U.S. government in the Treaty of Point No Point.
What is only trading with Americans, no more trading with Canada or its Native people.
These are the two countries whose immigrants primarily worked on the Railroad. One group worked for the Union Pacific, and the other for the Central Pacific.
What is Ireland (Union Pacific) and Chinese (Central Pacific)?
This is a railroad company that was established after the Pacific Railroad Act was passed. This company started construction in Omaha, Nebraska to the meeting point in Utah.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad Company?
These are the flaws of Native boarding schools. (3 answers)
What is many children died of disease, students were treated harshly leading to many running away and basing school on cultural superiority with the goal of "civilizing" the children?
This is the reason Washington statehood was pushed back to 1889.
What is conflicts with Native Americans?
These are three ways America took away Natives traditions in the Treaty of Point No Point. One took away their traditional education, one took away their traditional medicine, and one took away their traditional farming. (3 answers)
What is setting up American schools, operating American style clinics on reservations, and teaching European style farming / trades in schools?
This is the name of the meeting point for the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads. It was located in Utah and is the location of the Golden Spike ceremony.
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?