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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?
Forcibly confining Native Americans to designated lands, often on undesirable territories for long periods of time.
What are reservations?
Name one tribe who, who became significantly extinct following legislation from the U.S. government that forced them to migrate to the west.
What is the Cherokee?
A United States federal law that prohibited the immigration of Asian laborers for ten years!
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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?
U.S. leader, responsible for the forced removal of Native Americans in the eastern part of the country. Nickname: Old Hickery.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The African Americans who migrated from the Southern United States to Kansas and other western states, particularly in the late 1870s and early 1880s
What are Exodusters?
Three stipulations to securing home ownership in the west with the U.S. government?
What is filing for application, improve the land, apply for the deed?
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?
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?
Where were Indians relocated to?
Indian Territory / Oklahoma
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?
What is the process in which a minority group fully adopts the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group?
What is assimilation?
Name the Native American tribe Mr. George has lineage to.
What is the Choctaw?
*DAILY DOUBLE* Piece of legislation that significantly expanded access to higher education and provided federal land to states for matriculation.
What is the Morrill-Land Grant 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?
*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?
Name the tribe in Florida who resisted the Indian Removal Act and stayed in Florida
Hint: Florida State University football team name
Who were the Seminoles?
*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?
Name 4 states acquired in the Mexican Cession after the Mexican American War.
Where is California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Colorado?
What was the South's economy based on?
What is Slavery (with Agriculture)
The idea that the United States should expand west to the Pacific Ocean to better the country
What is Manifest Destiny?
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?
Which body of water divides the US into 2 parts. It was vital for trade and transportation.
What is the Mississippi River?