Westward Expansion

Lands required to live in by Native Americans

• Assimilate

•  Land Grant

•  Reservations

• Vigilante

To absorb into main culture of society

• Assimilate

• Land Grant

• Reservations

• Vigilante

Self appointed law enforcers

• Assimilate

• Land Grant

• Reservations

• Vigilante

Land designated for schools, roads, or railroads

• Assimilate

• Land Grant

• Reservations

• Vigilante

Fought U.S Army at Little Bighorn

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

• Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

Marked the end of major Indian resistance

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

• Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

Attempted to take his people to Canada

• Chief Joseph

• Sitting Bull

•  Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

Battle where Sioux was victorious over the U.S

• Chief Joseph

•  Sitting Bull

• Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

This law in 1862 gave 160 acres of land to persons willing to live on and to cultivate it for five (5) years.

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Allotment Act

• Pendleton Civil Service Act

• Acreage Act

The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established the legal precedent of

• separation of powers

•  judicial review.

• separate but equal.

• verticality.