Unit 1 Topic 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Definition: A cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.

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• Exodusters

• Westward Expansion

• Gold Rush

• Manifest Destiny

Definition: Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.

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• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Wounded Knee

• Assimilation

• Indian Wars

Definition: An idea as a means for fencing livestock had been around for some time, in 1868

Matching term?

• Freed Silver

• Gold Rush

• Barbed Wire

• Assimilation

Definition: a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of the Exodus of 1879.

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• Chinese Immigrant

• Exoduster

• Cowboy

• Native American

Definition: A range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite"

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• Dawes Act

• Gold Standard

• Populism

• The Grange

Definition: the process by which the characteristics of members of immigrant groups and host societies come to resemble one another.

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Definition: To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.

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Definition: built between 1863 and 1869 to join the eastern and western halves of the United States

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Definition: classic of American political oratory that was delivered by William Jennings Bryan

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Definition: a monetary system where a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold. Countries agreed to convert paper money into a fixed amount of gold.

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