Unit 1.1 Vocabulary Westward expansion

a person who comes to a country to live there

• immigrants

• push/pull factors

• Ghost Dance movement

• Las Gorras Blancas/The Whitecaps

name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas after the Civil War

• Exodusters

• immigrants

• push/pull factors

• Ghost Dance movement

American imperialist cultural belief that American settlers should expand across North America

• Manifest Destiny

• Exodusters

• immigrants

• push/pull factors

an official agreement between two or more countries

• treaties

• Manifest Destiny

• Exodusters

• immigrants

the action or process of making laws

• legislation

• treaties

• Manifest Destiny

• Exodusters

connected the resources from the West to the industries in the East while escalating conflict with native Americans

• railroad expansion

• legislation

• treaties

• Manifest Destiny

a country's independent authority and the right to govern itself

• sovereignty

• railroad expansion

• legislation

• treaties

its slaughter was once seen as a way to starve Native Americans into submission

• buffalo extermination

• sovereignty

• railroad expansion

• legislation

created to keep Native Americans off of lands Americans wished to settle, while allowing some sovereignty, cultural and social traditions.

• reservation system

• buffalo extermination

• sovereignty

• railroad expansion

aka Custer's Last Stand, worst US Army defeat by Native Americans, motivated heavy push to move Indians to reservations

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• reservation system

• buffalo extermination

• sovereignty