SS.912.A.2.7 - Review the Native American experience

Which of these did the Homestead Act do?

• Allowed settlers to build two-story homes

• Allowed settlers to claim 160 acres in the West for free

• Allowed settlers to settle into Florida

• provide a market for steel plows

Broke up reservations in order to "Americanize" the Native Americans.

• The Homestead Act

• Compromise of 1870

• Reconstruction Act

• The Dawes Act

How did Native American tribes in the Great Plains adapt to their environment?

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  They relied on fishing for food and used canoes for transportation.

• They relied on buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter and used horses for transportation and hunting.

• They hunted deer and used dogs for transportation and hunting.

• They built permanent settlements and practiced agriculture.

Forcing a group of people to give up their way of life and become more like the majority

• Transformation

• Transcendentalism

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  Assimilation

• Conservation

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent spreading the Western Civilized Culture?

• Manifest destiny

• Great Awakening

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  Louisiana Purchase

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  Monroe Doctrine