Westward Expansion

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to persons willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years

• Manifest destiny

• Sharecropping

• Homestead Act

• Tenant Farming

Americans divine right to occupy the territory between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

• Laissez Faire

• Carpe Diem

• Manifest Destiny

• Imperialism

Transportation source that linked the eastern US with the western territories?

• Oregon Trail

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Panama Canal

Caused settlers to move onto reservations, specifically the Black Hills

• Attack Native American tribes

• Follow buffalo

• Discover gold

What caused some Native American tribes to be nomadic?

• Following gold discoveries

• Moving west

• Escaping Civil War reparations

• Following buffalo

Forcing Native Americans to adapt to white culture and forget their own

• Nativism

• Culturation

• Assimilation

• Imperialism

Splitting up people based on the color of their skin

• Separation

• Racism

• Assimilation

• Segregation

1864 incident in which Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians who were under US Army protection

• Wounded Knee

• Battle of Little BigHorn

• Sand Creek Massacre

1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated the US troops under General Custer's command

• Wounded Knee

• Battle of Little BigHorn

• Sand Creek Massacre

1890 confrontation between US Cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance after the US Cavalry killed over 200 Native Americans

• Wounded Knee

• Battle of Little BigHorn

• Sand Creek Massacre