Motivations for Migration West
What term describes the African American migrants who moved to Kansas in the late 1800s seeking land and a better life?
What is Exodusters?
What U.S. policy aimed to force Native Americans onto reservations?
What is the reservation system?
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn, and why was it significant?
What is a major battle where Native Americans defeated U.S. troops, showing resistance?
What does the term "American Dream" generally refer to?
What is the idea that anyone can achieve success through hard work?
Name one reason immigrants moved to the West during the 19th century.
What is the search for land, economic opportunities, or escaping persecution?
How did the extermination of the buffalo impact Native American communities?
What is it destroyed their primary food source and way of life?
Describe one effect of the Wounded Knee Massacre on Native Americans.
What is it marked the end of armed Native American resistance?
How did the search for land in the West relate to the American Dream?
What is it represented the opportunity for prosperity and a better future?
How did the Homestead Act encourage people to move West?
What is by offering 160 acres of land for a small fee if they improved it?
What was the Dawes Act, and what did it aim to achieve?
What is a law intended to assimilate Native Americans by allotting them individual plots of land?
How did treaties between Native Americans and the U.S. government typically affect Native American land rights?
What is they often resulted in loss of land and broken promises?
Explain how the experiences of Exodusters reflect the American Dream.
What is they sought freedom and a chance to build lives on their own terms?
What was the concept of Manifest Destiny, and how did it motivate migration?
What is the belief that Americans were destined to expand across the continent?
Describe one way Native American culture changed due to assimilation policies.
What is the loss of traditional practices, languages, or communal living?
What was one cause of conflict between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion?
What is competition for land and resources?
What role did the idea of opportunity play in the motivations of immigrants moving West?
What is it fueled their hopes for economic success and a better life?
Explain how the Gold Rush influenced migration patterns to the West.
What is it attracted thousands of people seeking wealth, leading to rapid settlement?
How did westward expansion affect the hunting rights of Native Americans?
What is it restricted their access to traditional hunting grounds?
Explain how U.S. policies led to the displacement of Native Americans.
What is policies like the Dawes Act and forced removals that took land from tribes?
Describe how the concept of Manifest Destiny connects to the American Dream for settlers.
What is it provided a justification for expansion and pursuit of wealth and land?