American Indians
The tradition of growing corn, beans, and squash together
What is Three Sister Agriculture
The Drinking Gourd
What was the song that detailed how to get to the Underground RR
The god-given right to expand
What was Manifest Destiny
What was Lincoln's election
Lincoln did it to win his reelection by a landslide
What was insisting on a reelection even though he didn't need to due to wartime
Richard Pratt said that about Boarding Schools
What was "Kill the Indian, save the man."
The most important things were disallowed from doing
What was being educated
The 3 primary forces driving people West
What was Manifest Destiny, Gold Rushes, and the Homestead act
The fugitive slave act
What made Northerners have to capture and return runaway slaves
Caused Civil-War draft riots
What was black men didn't have to fight, and the rich could buy their way out
Allotted Native’s land, forcing them to adopt American style farms, and sold the remainder land to whites
What was the Dawes Act
The technologies that skyrocketed slavery use
What is the cotton gin, and steamships
Made the Homestead act not benefit common folk
What was businesses using loopholes to take all the good land for themselves
He sent troops into Mexico to start the Mexican-American War
Who was James Polk
What was he labelled them as property to be put in contraband camps
A government study that showed horrible conditions on Reservations
What was the Meriam Report
Poor whites supported slavery
What is made them feel superior, and they hoped to one day get rich through slavery
Who was Andrew Jackson
Their war for independence later led to Mexican-American war
What is Texas
Let white officers lead black battalions
What was General order 143
The Termination Act
What act removed Native American legal status, and all benefits it had
The 5 civilized tribes
Who were the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminoles
The 3 exclusion acts Oregon signed in the 1840s/50s
What were the African American exclusion acts
The compromise of 1850
What made California a new free state, New Mexico and Utah can decide free or slave, and made the Fugitive Slave Act
Bloodiest Battle in American history
What was the Battle of Shiloh