The West
The god given quest for America to stretch from the Atlantic to Pacific ocean
What is manifest destiny?
Expanding a country’s power by gaining political and economic control over other countries
What is imperialism?
Name 2 reasons Native Americans were mad at the US
taking their land, forcing them onto reservations, forcing them to assimilate
Whether or not we can trust something
What is credibility?
The belief that Americans are better than everyone else
What is American Exceptionalism?
The major war that America fought to gain land in the West
What is the Mexican-American War?
Main reason for US imperialism
What is economics, money, or trade
The first and most common way Native Americans would resist White American conquest
What is war and battles?
Actually being there or seeing an event happen
First hand account
Actual name for the part of the US that supported slavery during the Civil War
What is the confederacy?
The 2 main ways that America acquired land in the west
War and buying it
The belief that a country should not extend its power over other countries
What is anti-imperialism?
When a person adopts the customs and traditions of another culture
What is Assimilation?
being a professor on that specific topic, a historian, or having a lot of experience
Expert or leading authority
When a group of dissatisfied people work together to revolt against their current, ruling government.
What is revolution?
Most people went west for one of three reasons. What were they?
What are getting rich, starting a new/better life, and getting land?
How President McKinley felt about US imperialism
he was a big supporter
The place where Native American children were assimilated into White American culture.
What is the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
being clearly motivated to talk good or bad about the topic, sometimes they might be getting paid to do so.
What is bias?
How the US specifically treated Filipinos in the Philippines-American War
Put them in concentration camps, tortured them, raped them, murdered civilians
Name the countries we bought or took land from in the West
Mexico, France, Russia, Great Britain
Name 3 of the 4 places the US got after the war with Spain
Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines
Name 3 changes children were forced to make at Indian schools
cut their hair, change their names to english names, and speak only english
If I am a college math professor writing a paper on the Civil War (1861-1865), what is one possible negative impact on credibility that would definitely apply?
Not an expert or limited perspective
Put these events in chronological order (which happened first to which happened last): the civil war, the Mexican American war, the Spanish American war, the Wounded knee massacre, discovery of gold in California
Mexican-American War, discovery of gold, the Civil War, the Wounded Knee massacre, Spanish-American War