Topic 01 Westward Expansion Academic Language

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.

• Americanization

• Manifest Destiny

• Homestead Act

• Monroe Doctrine

The process of forcing someone to take on American characteristics even when not desired.

• Manifest Destiny

• Populism

• Assimilation

• Americanization

a political philosophy where politicians defend the ordinary people against a societies powerful elite​ (a)  

• populism
• Americanization
• assimilation
• Manifest Destiny
• Grange
• Monroe Doctrine

foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere​ (a)  

• Monroe Doctrine
• Manifest Destiny
• Dawes Act
• Homestead Act
• Indian Removal Act
• Treaty

Match the following people

• William Jennings Bryan

• A republican politician who helped pass an act intended to assimilate Native Americans into the US.

• Andrew Jackson

• American Indian medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War

• Henry Dawes

• President who passed the Indian Removal act in 1830, actively pursued Indian removal.

• Sitting Bull

• Candidate for president who ran in support of many Populist ideas

Match the Acts to what they did

• Homestead Act

• act passed by Congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with the Indians in the Southeast

• Dawes Act

• A formal agreement between two or more nations

• Land Grant

• 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years

• Indian Removal Act

• 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots

• Treaty

• Free land given by the federal government to private companies, especially for building roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

• Grange

• Trail of Tears

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Land Grant

public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government​ (a)  

• reservation
• land grant
• grange
• populism
• homestead
• Homestead Act
• Sitting Bull

1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance

• Indian Removal Act

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Trail of Tears

farmers' organization formed after the Civil War to organize and advocate for Populist ideas​ (a)  

• Grange
• patronizing
• Homestead
• Treaty
• reservation
• populism