Key Terms
What term is the belief that it was America’s destiny to expand across all of North America
Manifest Destiny
Who was the president who passed the Homestead Act?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the name of the law that gave 160 acres of land to any seller who would farm on it for five years?
Homestead Act
What was the name of the U.S. law passed in 1887 that broke up communal tribe lands into individual plots in order to force Native Americans to assimilate into mainstream white society?
The Dawes Act
What term describes the movement of Americans to settle in the western territory?
Westward Expansion
What was the nickname for the people who moved to California and search of gold in 1849?
Forty-Niners