Westward of Industrialization

What is assimilation?

• Assimilation is the process of creating new cultural norms.
• Assimilation is the act of isolating oneself from other groups.
• Assimilation refers to the rejection of one's own culture.
• Assimilation is the process of adopting the cultural norms of another group.

What natural resources were needed for the growing expansion of industrialization?

• Gold, silver, iron

• Coal, iron, timber.

• Timber, sand, oil

• Water, limestone, iron

What was the Homestead Acts?

• The Homestead Acts were laws that restricted land ownership to wealthy individuals.
• The Homestead Acts were a series of tax reforms aimed at increasing government revenue.
• The Homestead Acts were military regulations for soldiers during the Civil War.
• The Homestead Acts were laws that granted free land to settlers for settling West.

What is the Dawes Act?

• The Dawes Act aimed to increase Native American populations by providing them with government support.
• The Dawes Act is a law that aimed to assimilate Native Americans by breaking up tribal lands.

• The Dawes Act was a law that promoted the establishment of Native American reservations.
• The Dawes Act was a treaty that granted Native Americans full sovereignty over their lands.

_____ ___, passed in 1887 under President Grover Cleveland, allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands.

_________ ____, a bill passed by Congress that offered 160 acres of land, for free, to any citizen or intended citizens who were the head of the household.

• _______ ____ Massacre was the slaughter of approximately 150–350 Indians by United States Army troops in the area of southwestern South Dakota. 

What place helped Native Americans to assimilate?

• churches
• public schools
• Ellis Island
• other immigrants

The Dawes Act was designed to promote Indian...

• Education 
• Culture 
• Assimilation 
• Annihilation 

Changing their names, cutting their hair, forcing them to adopt Christianity, requiring them to learn English, etc. These are all examples of what pushed on many Immigrants, but especially the Indians (Native Americans)?

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Protectionism

• Temperance