Westward Expansion Vocabulary Quiz

Policy to push immigrants to speak, act, and behave like Americans

• Assimilation

• Vietnamization

• Social Darwinism

• Exclusion

Gold found in California & Alaska mid and late 1800s

• Oil Craze

• Gold Rush

• Sooner Movement

• Ghost Dance

Federal land made available to settlers

• Dawes Act 1887

• Morrill Tariff 1861

• Homestead Act 1862

• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882

-Assimilate Native Americans

-Abolish tribes

-Took away Indian land from American Indians

• Homestead Act 1862

• Dawes Act 1887

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Morrill Tariff

-Falling food prices

-Debt

-RR rates to ship food high

• Granger Movement

• Problems facing farmers 1870-1900

• Laissez Faire

• Problems facing big business 1870-1900

-RR that connected the Eastern to the Western Coast

-Made the movement of people and goods easier

• Gold Rush

• Oregon Trail

• Mountain Men

• Transcontinental RR

-National Party representing laborers, farmers, and industrial workers

-Supported bimetallism

-Pro-immigration restrictions

-Third-party effects - votes divided

• Independence Party

• Populist Party

• Bull-Moose Party

• Socialist Party

A person cannot be tried for the same crime twice and cannot be forced to self-incriminate themselves

• 4th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 6th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

Where the power of the gov't is divided between the National gov't and the State

• Separation of Powers

• 3 Branches of Gov

• Federalism

• Nationalism

Prevents any branch from becoming more powerful than the others

• Separation of Powers

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Checks and Balances