Unit 2: Concept Checkpoint #2 (Expansion & Native Americans)

Select all FOUR ways Native Americans were impacted by westward expansion

• Loss of buffalo

• Displaced from land

• Conflict with white settlers

• Forced assimilation

• Forced to use the transcontinental railroad

Select THREE examples of how Native Americans were displaced from their land

• Declaration of Indepence

• Reservation System

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Northwest Ordinance

What is the Dawes Act?

• Offered 160 acres of land to anyone who would live on it for 5 years

• Federal gov broke up tribal lands (some reservations) & sold it off

• Government of the northwest territory

• Specific areas set aside by the government for the Native Americans’ use (forced to move there)

What is the Homestead Act?

• Offered 160 acres of land to anyone who would live on it for 5 years

• Federal gov broke up tribal lands (some reservations) & sold it off

• Government of the northwest territory

• Specific areas set aside by the government for the Native Americans’ use (forced to move there)

What does "assimilate" mean?

• belief that it was the US’ destiny to expand towards the Pacific ocean (west) and into Mexico territory

• To be moved from home or homeland

• The movement of people from their native country to a new one permanently

• Force a person to adopt a different culture

What was the significance of the Ghost Dance?

• First place the Transcontinental Railroad stopped

• Another name for the idea of Manifest Destiny

• Series of wars between Native Americans and the United States between 1850 -1870

• Example of Native American resistance to assimilation