Reassessment Unit 3: Growth & Growing Pains - Key Terms

Process of becoming an accepted part of a country, group, or mainstream culture—can be forced or voluntary

• Assimilation

• Immigration

• Nativization

• Socialism

The Dawes Act of 1887...

• Confiscated & redistributed tribal lands in American West

• Did not allow Native Americans to have separate family farms and have tribal governing system

• Led to the Las Gorras Blancas and emergence of violence

• Led to creation of reservations to isolate Native Americans

From the 1830s-1880s, the primary US gov't approach to Native Americans was all about REMOVAL & _____________, but this policy changed in 1887 (and again in 1930).

• Reservations

• Assimilation

• Citizenship

• Execution

This law specifically barred Chinese laborers from entering the US, and was in place for more than 60 years.

• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Ban on Foreign Labor Act
• The Asian Immigration Act
• The Chinese Labor Law

What does indigenous mean?

• Native to or originally from a specific place

• Recently arrived to a specific place from somewhere else

• Upset at new arrivals and wanting to protect those born here

• The movement of people to urban areas

(3 correct answers, select them all)

The Homestead Act:

• Encouraged westward settlement

• Freely granted 160 acres to every head of household who applied

• Created new tensions between Native Americans and new settlers

• Broke up the reservations into individual homesteads to encourage assimilation

• Was only for white male citizens

What was the economic impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on the West?

• It led to the discovery of gold and silver in the Rocky Mountains and Black Hills.
• It improved farming equipment on the Great Plains.
• It allowed for faster and farther movement of goods, raw materials, and people.
• It provided free land to settlers through the Homestead Act of 1862.

What battle between the US Army and the Sioux Nation began over the Ghost Dance ritual and is seen by history as the final battle in the Indian Wars?

• The Battle of Sand Creek

• The Battle of Little Bighorn

• The Battle of Wounded Knee

• The Battle of the Ghost Dance

a dance that the Native Americans believed would make white settlers leave and restore the buffalo to the Plains

• Ghost Dance

• Americanization

• assimilate

• reservation

complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition

• Robber Barons
• Bessemer Process
• Monopoly
• Philanthropy