Westward Expansion
This vocabulary term refers to the expansion of the United States' territory from the east coast to the west coast.
What is westward expansion?
Which vocabulary term refers to the process by which a minority group or culture adopts the values, behaviors, and beliefs of the dominant culture
What is assimilation?
This act/law authorized the removal of Native Americans from tribal territories.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What were armed resistance and legal challenges?
This explorer is responsible for the name 'Indian' towards Native Americans.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This vocabulary term refers to the belief that the United States SHOULD or is destined to extend from the east coast to the west coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This type of school was used to assimilate Native American children into white society.
What are boarding/residential schools?
This term describes the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the Southeast U.S.
What is the Trail of Tears?
These wars erupted after gold was found in tribal territories. White Americans began to encroach on Native land and this group of Native Americans went to war to defend their resources.
This act aimed to protect Native American children from being removed from their families.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act?
What was one major positive effect of westward expansion?
What is increased access to goods and resources?
What is economic growth?
What is the establishment of infrastructure (towns, railroads, etc.)?
What is achievement of Manifest Destiny?
This U.S. President is associated with the Indian Removal Act, which led to the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This act was a major tool for assimilation, allotting individual land plots to Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
These wars were started by tribes moving to reclaim land in Illinous that was previously surrendered.
What are the Blackhawk Wars.
This 1934 act aimed to reverse the Dawes Act and restore tribal governance.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
What is one major negative effect of westward expansion?
What is the expansion of (chattel) slavery?
What is pollution?
This tribe was one of the largest to be displaced during the Trail of Tears.
Who are the Cherokee?
Which type of government action, frequently broken, led to Native American displacement?
What are treaties?
This leader resisted the reservation system and led his people in the Nez Perce War.
Who is Chief Joseph?
This organization, founded in 1968, advocated for Native American rights and sovereignty.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
What is the name of the point where the two halves of the transcontinental railroad met?
What is Promontory Point?
This phrase (originally by Richard Henry Pratt) was used to justify the assimilation of Native American children through boarding school education.
What is 'Kill the Indian, save the man'?
How did displacement policies affect Native Americans?
What is loss of life?
What is loss of cultural traditions?
What is disconnection from ancestral/tribal lands?
This Supreme Court case ruled that Native American tribes had their own governance rights and the U.S. government couldn't pass laws that affected them.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This act aimed to protect Native American graves and cultural items.
What is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act?