Manifest Destiny
The definition of Manifest Destiny.
What is the US's god-given right to expand westward?
What is to acquire land?
This was the aim of the boarding schools.
What is assimilation?
The name of an agreement or deal made between the US government and indigenous people.
What is a treaty?
This is the term when one country takes over the land of another country or people.
What is annexation?
This is what native nations began to call the treaties signed with the US government after so many of the promises were no kept.
What is "bad paper"?
This Commission was created to investigate, document and acknowledge past injustices of the federal government's Indian Boarding School policies.
What is the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding Schools?
The belief that it was god-given right for the US to expand westward.
What is manifest destiny?
An example of a positive aspect of the implementation of Manifest Destiny or US expansion westward.
What is progress such as the extension of the railroad, electricity and education?
Name a way in which Native Nations resisted US expansion.
What is negotiations, signing treaties, fighting, buying back their land, legal action, or refusing to leave their land?
What is traditional meals and clothing, speaking their native languages, or proper medical care?
This is what areas in the United States where Native Tribes were forced to live were called.
What are reservations?
An example of the negative aspects of the implementation of Manifest Destiny or the US westward expansion.
What is taking land from indigenous people, killing of animals, displacing indigenous tribes?
This was a famous battle in 1876 that the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne won against General Custer also known as Custer's last stand.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The name of the law that the US government made to force indigenous tribes to leave their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Forcing one group to change to fit into another groups culture.
What is assimilation?
This is the land that the US annexed from Mexico after the US Mexico War of 1846-1848.
What is California?
This law took land that belonged to tribes and divided it into small pieces for individual Native American families.
What is the Dawes Act?
This was the name of the policy proposed by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Henry Pratt.
What is "kill the Indian, save the man"?
The act of opposing, pushing back against or withstanding a force, idea or process such as what Native tribes did in response to US expansion.
What is resistance?