4a-c Vocab

Manifest Destiny is?

• is the belief that Americans had the right, or even the duty, to expand westward across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

• lands gained by force, such as the Mexican cession, are considered imperialistic conquests.

• This removed and relocated thousands of Cherokees from Georgia to Indian Territory in Oklahoma so that white settlers could have that land.

• This land purchase added the most territory to the United States by doubling the size of the United States.

This was a law that gave away 270 million acres of public land to private citizens. The act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to help develop the American West and stimulate economic growth.

• Dawes Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Homestead Act

• Act Your Age Act

What is the Transcontinental Railroad

• the first continuous railroad line across the Pacific Northwest to Mexico

• the first continuous railroad line across Alaska and Hawaii

• the first continuous railroad line from the Mississippi to Canada

• the first continuous railroad line across the United States, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

What is an Oppressive Government?

• A good government with many frameworks to help people.

• A government for the people, by the people.

• one that treats people unfairly and cruelly, and prevents them from having the same rights and freedoms as others.

• A government that gives the people what they need.

The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands.

• The Battle of the Little Bighorn

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Battle of Chief Joseph

• Sandy Creek Massacre

Who was Chief Joseph?

• A fearless fighter who symbolized Native American resistance against the United States and Mexico.

• Nez Perce leader who led his tribe called the Wallowa band of Nez Perce through a treacherous time in United States history.

• A Lakota leader and medicine man who became a world-famous American Indian.

• • military leader and tactician who opposed the Treaty of Payne's Landing, which sought to remove the Seminole from their Florida lands. 

What is an Indian reservation?

• Is a land that was given to Native American tribes before they disappeared completely from history.

• Is a land that no one can enter without a native american guide.

• Is land set aside for Native American children to be reeducated.

• is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation

What is a Nativist?

• relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

• Someone who enjoys nature and hiking.

• Someone who enjoys time spent with native americans.

True of False: American Protective Association was a secret society that played upon the fears of rural Americans about the growth and political power of immigrant-populated cities.

• True

• False

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