Unit 1 Topic 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following definitions to their vocabulary words

• Mass movement of people to a new locatio

• Morrill Land Grant Act

• Distribution of land to state government

• Dawes Act

• Growing movement to help farmers

• Manifest Destiny

• Assimilation of Natives to American idea

• Populist Movement

• country’s destiny to expand

• Migration

The process in which a minority group adopts the beliefs, ways of life, attitudes, and culture of the dominant population. Native Americans were forced to give up their beliefs and way of life to emulate the white culture of the United States under the Dawes Act. Many Native American children were forcefully taken from their families and placed in schools, like the Carlisle school, designed to do just this.

• Assimilation

• Dawes Act

• Exclusion Act

• Carlisle School Act

The law granted free land to settlers in an effort to develop the Great Plains, acting as a PULL factor encouraging Westward Expansion. A negative result of this law was that Native Americans were pushed off their lands by white settlers and U.S. Army cavalry which led to the Dawes Act.

• Effects of Assimilation

• Effects of the Homestead Act

• Effects of the Dawes Act

• Effects of the Pacific Railway Act

This movement was formed by small farmers, sharecroppers, and industrial workers. The goals of this movement of the 1890s included government control (regulation) of railroads, bimetallism, and the income ta

• Bimetallism

• Agrarian Movement

• The Granger Movement

• Populism

Populist leader and gifted orator. Supported bimetallism, income taxes, and government regulation of the economy. Democratic presidential candidate in the Election of 1896. His defeat led to the decline of populism

• William Jennings Bryan

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Justin Morrill

• Colonel John Chivington

Southern African Americans who rushed to Kansas during the 1870s to escape poverty and racism. They were led by "Pap" Singleton to Kansas as well as, what would become Oklahoma, Colorado, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, and Montana, to become farmers on the plains.

• Cowboys

• Freedmen

• Great Migrationists

• Exodusters

Is this a correct way to use the term in a sentence?

"The Homestead Act was a part of the government’s involvement in encouraging eastern settlements."

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• Incorrect

Is this a correct way to use the term in a sentence?

"The Dawes Act was a federal law Congressed used in order to remove Native Americans from American History."

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• Incorrect

Is this a correct way to use the term in a sentence?

"Being one of the most revolutionary concepts of its time, the Transcontinental Railroad has a huge geographic impact on the US."

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• Incorrect

Is this a correct way to use the term in a sentence?

"Many families who migrated west took up mining for the Gold Rush of 1849."

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• Incorrect