US.U1.Vocabulary

The belief in the possibility of a better, richer, and fuller life through opportunity, often symbolized by land ownership and success through hard work, is called ________.

• American Dream

• Manifest Destiny

• Industrial Revolution

• Social Darwinism

To acquire or settle on land under a Homestead law, such as the Homestead Act, which offered 160 acres to settlers who lived on and improved the land for five years, is called ________.

• Homestead

• Sharecropping

• Enclosure

• Squatting

Black Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas after Reconstruction seeking better lives, often through homesteading, were known as ________.

• Exoduster

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen

A region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area, viewed as full of opportunity and symbolic of new beginnings in American history, is called the ________.

• Frontier

• Colony

• Metropolis

• Territory

Force, restraints, or threats that pressure someone to act against their will is known as ________.

• Duress

• Consent

• Negligence

• Consideration

Moving from place to place without a permanent home, often used to describe certain Native American tribes, is called being ________.

• Nomadic

• Sedentary

• Urbanized

• Agricultural

A place that provides or stores food and supplies, often in military or reservation settings, is called a ________.

• Commissary

• Auditorium

• Sanctuary

• Observatory

To abolish or break; to treat as nonexistent, often used in the context of broken treaties with Native Americans, is called ________.

• Abrogation

• Ratification

• Annexation

• Reconciliation

To integrate or be absorbed into the culture of a population or group is to ________.

• Assimilate

• Segregate

• Emigrate

• Isolate

Legislation that provides money for something; e.g., government funding of Indian affairs, is called ________.

• Appropriations

• Resolutions

• Filibusters

• Amendments