Vocabulary Test: Unit 3 - West

Gave federal government authority in cases involving runaway slaves; aroused considerable opposition in the North.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1860

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1845

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

A notion held by some Americans in the 1800's that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.

• Sectionalism

• Monroe Doctrine

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

Created Nebraska and Kansas as states & gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be either a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Compromise Of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

• Bleeding Kansas (1856)

• Louisiana Purchase (1803)

U.S. Act that allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres of Federal land.

• Homestead Act of 1857

• Dawes Act of 1887

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Homestead Act of 1852

Forcing an ethnic group to adopt the culture of a dominant group.

• Reservation System

• Annihilation

• Forced Assimilation

• Bureau Of Indian Affairs

The system that gave land with designated boundaries to Native American tribes in the west.

• Forced Assimilation

• Reservation System

• States Rights

• Bureau Of Indian Affairs

U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the U.S. and giving the U.S. full control of the Mississippi River.

• Kansas-nebraska Act (1854)

• Lewis and clark expedition (1804-1806)

• Wounded Knee (1890)

• Louisiana Purchase (1803)

A government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans

• States Rights

• Forced Assimilation

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Abolitionist Movement

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental United States

• Manifest Destiny

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Highways

• Transcontinental Railroad

The forced relocation of the Cherokee tribe to the Western United States; resulted in the deaths of 4,000 Cherokees.

• Trail of Tears (1838)

• Homestead Act of 1862

• Bleeding Kansas (1856)

• Missouri Compromise of 1820