Westward Expansion
Belief that the US should spread its territory from coast to coast.
Manifest Destiny
During what event did Crazy Horse and Sioux ambush William Fetterman’s troops and kill them all?
Massacre at Sand Creek
This was discovered in the west and caused many people to "rush" out there.
Gold
What were laws used to discriminate on African Americans called?
Jim Crow Laws
Many immigrants of the era came from these countries.
China
Mexico
Panama
Peru
What did the Homestead act?
Offered 160 acres of free land to anyone who would cultivate it for 5 years.
The belief natives will give up their culture and become part of an American Culture.
Assimilation
Describe the gold rush towns that sprung up across California.
The overcrowded chaos of the mining camps and towns, complete with shops, saloons and brothels, grew ever more lawless, including rampant banditry, gambling, prostitution and violence.
This word means denying someone the right to vote.
Disenfranchisement
This amendment granted all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race or former servitude
15th Amendment
Term for African Americans who moved West from the post reconstruction South.
Exodusters
This is battle is also known as Custer’s last stand.
Battle of Little Big Horn
How did the gold rush impact women and their home life?
Women left behind took on new responsibilities such as running farms or businesses and caring for the children and home.
What terror act was used to enforce segregation
Lynching
Suffering from poverty and disease the Sioux turned to a this ritual in 1890 in an attempt to gain back their lands and culture
Ghost Dance
Name 4 reason people may have moved out west.
Gold
Land
Farming opportunities
Escape persecution
What is the Dawe's Act?
Attempt to Americanize the natives by giving them a desire to farm.
During this time farmers grows crops for the market, and not to be self-sufficient.
Post Civil War
What are 4 types of disenfranchisement?
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
Violence
The new political part that developed in the 1800's and early 1900's
Populist party
What did the government offer to companies that were willing to build a Transcontinental Rail line?
Land grants
Explain the significance of the buffalo on Native American life and culture.
This was considered the lifeline of Native Americans on the Great Plains.
This led to better farming equipment, figuring out the best way to grow crops, and getting goods to various markets.
New Farming Technology
Why is the Jim Crow Laws hypocritical to the establishment of America.
America was established because colonists wanted to have freedom and believed that "everyone was equal". However, the Jim Crow Laws went against the colonists belief that "everyone was equal".
Predict what daily-life was like during the enforcement Jim Crow Laws.
Answers may vary, but something related to African-American's always being discriminated and threatened.