Acts and Ordinances
Act that encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
What is the Homestead Act
The conflict between the United States and Mexico fought from 1846 to 1848, primarily stemming from a dispute over the annexation of Texas by the U.S.
What is the U.S. Mexican War
The territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase
The movement of people in the American West from 1787-1860
What is Westward Expansion
The President who was a large proponent of Manifest Destiny, extending territory through the U.S. Mexico War
Who is James K. Polk
Act that forced migration of Indigenous Peoples by the U.S. government
What is Indian Removal Act
A person who leaves their home country to live somewhere else. These people who traveled west on trails were also called pioneers
What is an Emigrant
The taking over of land
What is Annex
idea that Americans were chosen by God to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is Manifest Destiny
The president who enacted the Indian Removal act
Who is Andrew Jackson
Law passed by the Continental Congress in 1787 that established a system for governing the Northwest Territory, outlining how new states could be formed from that land and guaranteeing certain rights to settlers, including the prohibition of slavery
What is The Northwest Ordinace
What is a Pioneer
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
What is Secession
The rapid movement of people West in search of the promise of gold
What is a Gold Rush
Duo who were some of the first to go out and explore the frontier and report back on land that Americans had little understanding of
Who is Lewis and Clark
1887 law which gave all Native American males 160 acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other Americans.
What is the Dawes Act
Battle fought by the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyanne, and the Arapaho against the U.S. Army 7th cavalry
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn
Where unsettled land begins
What is the Frontier
United States army officer and cavalry man who led the battle of Little Bighorn
Who is George A Custer
Treaty that secured peace between the US and Mexico, ending the U.S. Mexico war
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Land that is set aside for Native Americans by the United States government
What is a Reservation