Westward Expansion Vocabulary

Front

What is a primary source in history?

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Diary

Front

What does the term 'Manifest Destiny' refer to?

Back

The belief that Americans had a God-given right to expand West.

Front

What was the purpose of the Dawes Act of 1877?

Back

To divide Native American reservations and give land to individual Native Americans

Front

What was the impact of the Homestead Act?

Back

It encouraged people to move West by giving them free land.

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What was the purpose of the Erie Canal?

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To build a human-made waterway across New York state

Front

The painting made in 1872 of a woman carrying telephone/telegraph wires (communication) and representing bringing culture and technology to the West is titled_________.

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American Progress

Front

A __________________ is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under agreement with the United States govt; Natives were expected to live an American lifestyle

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Reservation

Front

The following are effects of ___________________.

• -bison/buffalo were almost killed off (extinct)
• -end of some Native American tribes (near genocide)
• -loss of Native American culture
• -population growth and density of America increased
• -American economy grew
• -railroads expanded

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Westward Expansion

Front

What is the name of the human-made waterway built across New York state up the Hudson River in the early 19th century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River opening access to the mid-West?

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Eerie Canal

Front

Which of the following choices is NOT a cause of Westward Expansion?
Options:

• Religious freedom- Mormons looking to settle in new area

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• Homestead Act - gave 160 acres of land in the West free to people to live on and develop and gave people an opportunity

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• Gold rush

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New ways of transportation via the railroad