Timeline
Land acquisitions
Impact and Manifest Destiny
Wisconsin Native Americans
100
When did the Compromise of 1850 happen?
(September) 1850
100
Who originally owned the land of the 13 colonies
No one/Native Americans
100
What was the name for the mass migration and forceful relocation of Native Americans?
The Trail of Tears
100
Which tribal land is KM middle school on?
Potawatomi
200
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. When was this amendment passed
The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865,
200
What land purchase was bought from the French government?
Louisiana Purchase
200
What is Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny was a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined BY GOD to expand and govern across North America.
200
True or False: The first people in Wisconsin were nomadic
true
300
When did Nat Turner’s Rebellion happen?
Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831
(only need the year)
300
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana for $15 million. Why did we want the land?
Possible Answers
- Stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and from Canada to New Orleans
This DOUBLED the size of the United States
Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase
300
The ideology of Manifest Destiny was used to justify what?
The extreme measures to clear the native population from the land, including forced removal and violent extermination
300
According to the map in this section, which two states were once merged into a single territory?
North and South Dakota
400
What are the dates of the Civil War
Apr 12, 1861 – Apr 9, 1865
400
The Treaty of Paris was signed between Great Britain and the United States in 1783. What did the treaty do?
Make Britain see America as a free country
Determined boundaries of the new country
Removed British Troops from area
Granted U.S. land from Atlantic Ocean in the East to the Mississippi River in West-Great Lakes in the North to the Gulf of Mexico in the South (great for trade and travel)
400
In which focus group were cowboys treated "pretty much the same as whites as long as their money lasted."
African Americans
400
What was the policy of the Dawes Act?
To remove Native Americans east of the Mississippi
To establish Native American Reservations
To Americanize Native Americans
To push the US Army into Native American territories
(3) To Americanize Native Americans
500
What event is describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces
Bleeding Kansas
500
Why did the US want the land we won in the Mexican War?
The U.S. wanted a port on the Pacific coast in the Mexican territory of California
Expand the US land
President Polk tried to buy this land but Mexico would not sell
500
“Manifest Destiny” was first used in 1845 by who?
John O’Sullivan, a newspaper editor
500
What occurred at Little Bighorn?
A massacre of Native Americans
The signing of a treaty
The establishment of a reservation
A defeat for American soldiers
(4) It marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War