US/Native American Relations
What are reservations?
They are public lands where Native Americans were required to live by the federal government.
What country did the US fight with to gain modern California and New Mexico?
Mexico
Name two groups of people that white settlers encountered as they moved west
Native Americans
Mexican settlers
What does confrontation mean?
a hostile encounter
Name 3 Native American tribes that we discussed and/or read about
Sioux
Cherokee
Chickasaw
Creek
Choctaw
Seminole
What was one effect of the pressure on Native Americans to assimilate into white culture?
Native Americans lost many traditions
What two strategies did the US government use to deal with the “Indian Problem”?
Forced relocation
Forced Assimilation
Where did the Transcontinental Railroad run from?
From the western United States (Sacramento, CA) to the eastern United States (Omaha, NE)
What does assimilated mean?
To be absorbed into the main culture of a society
Which battle defined the Texas fight for independence from Mexico?
Alamo
Explain why the white settlers and the Native Americans couldn’t live side by side. Use 2 specific details to support your answer.
Conflicting ideas of land ownership
Herding buffalo vs. growing crops
Give the date of the Indian Removal Act, name the president who passed it, and the state where the Native American tribes were removed to.
1830
Andrew Jackson
Oklahoma
These two ideas were the promise of Manifest Destiny
What was democracy and freedom?
What does pacify mean?
To make peaceful or to calm
What was the open-range system?
method of ranching in which the rancher allowed his or her livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland
What was the Dawes General Allotment Act?
An law that divided reservation land into private family plots (passed in 1887)
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was controversial because
the Constitution did not authorize federal government to buy territory from a foreign power and Louisiana would upset the balance of slave and free states
Which US president ran on the platform of Manifest Destiny and won that election with the promise to expand the country?
James Polk, president (1845-1849)
What does confined mean?
Forced to stay within a small area
Describe the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Which countries were involved? What was the result?
A treaty between the US and Mexico. Mexico cedes the northern third of their country to the US, namely all of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona as well as part of neighboring states.
This Supreme Court case ruled against removing the Cherokee nation from their land in Georgia
What was Worcester vs. Georgia?
The US government offered farm plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land for 5 years, dig a well, and build a road
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Who were the Exodusters and where did they go?
Former slaves that fled the South after Reconstruction. They went to Kansas and Oklahoma, where they planted crops and founded several enduring all-black towns.
Who were vigilantes?
Self-appointed law enforcers who punished lawbreakers in the mining towns of the west
Name two goals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Find a water route across the continent.
Catalog new species & resources; survey the land for future development.
Communicate with the native tribes, build diplomacy, establish trade partnerships.