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2.1 Territorial Expansion
2.2 Cultural Clashes
2.2 Native Americans
2.3 Railroads and Farming
2.3 The Populist Movement
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The belief that it was the United States' destiny to expand west and conquer territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean
What is manifest destiny?
100
Two reasons that Europeans migrated west in the 1800s
What are to get rich and spread religion?
100
Government lands to which Native Americans were forced to move to and live on
What are reservations?
100
Completed in 1862, this connected eastern railroads to western railroads, making cross country rail travel possbile
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
A term that refers to paper money, these was supported because they increased the money supply and raised farm prices
What are green backs?
200
After the U.S. defeated him, Santa Anna (the Mexican leader) promised to recognize this independent republic
What is the Republic of Texas?
200
The act that allowed anyone who cultivated 160 acres of land for five years would receive title to the land from the federal government
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This battle was the Native Americans' last great victory over the U.S. Army - It resulted in the massacre of George A. Custer and over 200 of his men (aka "Custer's last stand")
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
200
This made it possible to farm the tough prairie terrain of the West, helping to make farming a key western industry
What is a steel plow?
200
The movement that supported farmers and the "common man"
What is the Populist movement?
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The U.S. slogan to claim the Oregon Territory from Great Britian
What is "54-40, or fight!"?
300
An event that occurred when the U.S. government opened what had previously been Native American territory in Oklahoma to white settlement
What is the Oklahoma land rush?
300
A law passed by Congress in 1887 meant to assimilate Native Americans into U.S. culture
What is the Dawes Act?
300
A major western industry due to available land and the fact that white settlers had learned proper ranching techniques from Mexicans
What is cattle ranching?
300
A famous speech given by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention in which he called for free silver
What is the "Cross of Gold" speech?
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The country the United States acquired California, Arizona, and New Mexico from
What is Mexico?
400
These people were African American soldiers who served admirably and had a reputation among Native American as brave fighters
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Native American people led by Chief Joseph who complied with U.S. orders to relocate but were attacked by the U.S. on their way to relocation
Who are the Nez Perce?
400

Organizations through which farmers united to help one another economically and politically

What are cooperatives?

400

The position that the U.S. government should base the U.S. dollar on silver as well as gold

What is free silver?

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The agreement to give the United States parts of present-day New Mexico and Arizona in exchange for ten million dollars to build the transcontinental railroad
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
Congress passed this act in 1882 to restrict Chinese immigration and was not repealed until 1943
Who are Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
The manner in which the U.S. used its military to take land previously occupied by Native Americans and relocate tribes to areas designated by the U.S. government
What is by conquest?
500
Despite the lack of timber, this made fencing possible for farmers in the West
What is barbed wire?
500

When this Republican president took office, it marked the end of the Populist Movement

Who is McKinley?