Big Topics
the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, and a belief in "manifest destiny.
What is Westward Expansion?
Instead of fighting another war the US quietly and quickly pays 10 million for this small land to complete the railroad
What is Gadsden Purchase?
U.S. leader, responsible for the forced removal of Native Americans through the Indian Removal Act
Who is Andrew Jackson?
*DAILY DOUBLE* The US government was forcing Native Americans onto reservations due to Westward Expansion. In this instance, they refused to leave. Ended with the defeat of US forces by the Sioux tribe.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Act of Legislation that forced Native Americans to adjust to American societal norms and customs?
Who is the Dawes Act of 1887?
A monumental feat of engineering that connected the eastern and western United States
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Which body of water divides the US into 2 parts. It was vital for trade and transportation.
What is the Mississippi River?
Leader of France that sold a massive amount of territory to Thomas Jefferson
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Sioux were camping out and US troops came to arrest their leader. Resulted in the murder of 300 Native Americans by the US government.
What is the Massacre of Wounded Knee?
*DAILY DOUBLE* Law gave the President the power to force Native American tribes to move to land west of the Mississippi River
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The acquisition of land by the United States from France in 1803. This massive land deal, for $15 million, effectively doubled the size of the United States, adding 828,000 square miles.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
this many states were carved out of the land known as the Louisiana Purchase
what is 15 new states?
Thomas Jefferson hired two explorers to map the land from the Louisiana Purchase
Who are Lewis and Clark?
What is the process in which a minority group fully adopts the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group?
What is assimilation?
A United States federal law that prohibited the immigration of Asian laborers for ten years!
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Religious and cultural movement, in which Natives believed in the rejection of the ways of the white man and beliefs that gods would restore the world and destroy enemies.
What is Ghost Dance Movement?
Name 4 states acquired in the Mexican Cession after the Mexican American War.
Where is California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Colorado?
The unsung heroes in Lewis and Clarks Expedition
Who is Sacagawea & York?
The deadly, forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory
What is the Trail of Tears?
Enacted in 1862, granting 160 acres of public land to settlers (including women and immigrants) for a small fee and five years of residence/improvement
What is the Homestead Act?
The idea that the United States should expand west to the Pacific Ocean to better the country
What is Manifest Destiny?
What was the South's economy based on?
What is Slavery (with Agriculture)
Indians relocation area was known as
what is Indian Territory / Oklahoma
Forcibly confining Native Americans to designated lands, often on undesirable territories for long periods of time.
What are reservations?
Americans wanted more territory out west and thus started wars with Mexicans who were native to this land
What is Mexican-American War?