Territorial Acquisition
The people instrumental in guiding the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
What are Indigenous tribes?
The description of Manifest Destiny.
What is the idea that American settlers were destined to expand westward.
Any land west of the Mississippi river was supposed to be indigenous territory, but this Act allowed the nation to forcibly relocate the Cherokee nation from their homeland to Oklahoma.
What is the Removal Act of 1803?
Where people of color were sent if caught living in their states
What is western states or Liberia Colony
The state acquired by the US which turned into the catalyst for the Mexican American War.
What is Texas
The president responsible for signing off on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Temporary or semi-permanent colonies of refuge. Often in difficult to reach wilderness areas, using the cover of the wilderness to hide.
What are Maroon colonies?
This Act allowed the government to take legislative action to assimilate indigenous peoples into the euro-American society. They tried to incentivize people by giving them citizenship if they agreed. This divided the indigenous community and dismantled the tribal governments.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
Free people of color did this to seek freedom from the removal laws.
What is homesteading and Westward Expansion
The number of acres of "federally protected parks and refuges" in Alaska
What is 104 million
The territory bought from France in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
The negative connotations of the work "pioneer."
What is the idea that the west was empty of inhabitants before it was colonized.
The reason it was possible for the nation to have public lands.
What is the relocation of indigenous people and stealing their ancestral lands?
The act allowing the expulsion of African Americans with ties to Indigenous tribes.
What is The Indian Removal Act
The Act allowing for private corporations to draw water from public lands.
What is The Reclamation Act (1902)
The purposes of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (There are 5)
What is to explore and map out new territory, find transportation routes across the West, establish a claim to the territory, assess resources, and establish relationships with the indigenous people along the Missouri River.
The first Wilderness Area (name and year) established by the United States.
What is Gila Primitive Area (1924)
The 8 states acquired by the US via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What are Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.