The widely-held view that the U.S had a God Given mission to expand west across the continents spreading American Government and culture.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The approximate amount of miles of the Trail of Tears.
What is 1,000 miles ?
100
It is made out of Buffalo Hide and poles, designed as a cone shape.
What is a Tipi?
100
The people that would collect the money from the fire insurance after the buildings got burned down.
What is a landlord?
100
To get economically forced out of your neighborhood..
What is displacement ?
200
The year President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government.
What is 1803?
200
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson pushed an Indian Removal Act through congress which offered reservations west of the Mississippi. To what tribes ?
What is Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole?
200
The displacement of poor communities by rich outsiders.
What is Gentrification?
200
The 3 neighborhoods that were terribly hit and deeply affected by these fires.
What is Bushwick, Brooklyn and South Bronx?
200
When wealthier people begin to move into poorer or neglected neighborhoods.
What is Gentrification?
300
It is originally known as the Pacific Railroad; later known as the Overland Route. A contiguous network of railroad trackage that crosses a continental land mass with terminals at different oceans or continental borders.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
300
In 1836, the Cherokee was given 2 years to pack their stuff and move out of their homeland because of this treaty.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
300
People who commit fires.
What is arsonist?
300
They closed fire stations and fire the people that inspected buildings for fire safety and repaired fire hydrants.
What is city politicians?
300
3 neighborhoods in Brooklyn that you needed to be making a huge amount of money to live there.
What is Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, or Williamsburg?
400
In May 1862, every and any American, including freed slaves in the western U.S got an opportunity to put in a claim to own up to 160 free acres of federal land.
What is Homestead Act?
400
When the Native Americans were forced to relocate from the Southeastern parts of the United States.
What is Trail of Tears?
400
When something is not fair.
What is unjust?
400
The amount of blocks that lost buildings in South Bronx.
What is 44 blocks out of 289 blocks ?
400
Poor people..
What is the economic group that is usually forced to leave gentrified neighborhoods?
500
He led the forced removal of the Indians to start their journey on the Trail of Tears.
What is General Winfield Scott?
500
They refer to themselves as "Tsistsistas".
What is Southern Cheyenne?
500
To give up traditions and cultures and take on the cultures of White Europeans.
What is Assimilate?
500
The mayor during the burning in 1971.
What is Mayor John Lindsay?
500
The group of people that usually benefit off of gentrification?