Study Guide Alt: Unit 2: Westward Expansion & Immigration

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Belief it was Americans' destiny to create the railroad

• Railroad that extends across the entire country

• Belief it was US' destiny to expand westward towards the Pacific

• To be forced to move from homeland

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Select THREE long term effects of Manifest Destiny

• Displacement of indigenous people (Native Americans)

• Creation of the Transcontinental Railroad

• Decrease need for public education

• Increase in automobiles (cars)

• New states, technology, & industries

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Railroad that ONLY travels the East Coast

• Belief that it was the US’ destiny to expand towards the Pacific ocean (west) and into Mexico territory

• Railroad that extends across the entire country

• Type of new automobile available to Americans who are traveling North only

Select all FOUR ways Native Americans were impacted by westward expansion

• Loss of buffalo

• Displaced from land

• Conflict with white settlers

• Forced assimilation

• Forced to use the transcontinental railroad

Why was the buffalo important to Native Americans?

• Main animal in their hunting sport

• it wasn't important actually

• They were going extinct

• Used for all basic needs (food, clothing, supplies, weapons)

Select THREE examples of how Native Americans were displaced from their land

• Declaration of Indepence

• Reservation System

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Northwest Ordinance

What was the purpose of the Carlisle School?

• Educate Native Americans for life on reservations

• Train future leaders of the United States

• Promote Cultural Assimilation of Native Americans

• Promote Deportation of Chinese immigrants

Match the following Native American displacement examples

• Dawes Act

• Land set aside for the Native Americans by the US gov.

• Reservations

• Gave 160 acres for free to anyone who would live on it for 5 years; Land was taken from Native Americans

• Homestead Act

• Divides up reservations into smaller sections; sold it off to Natives & others; pathway for Native Americans to become US citizens

If accepted, the Dawes Act could provide Native Americans with ...

SELECT TWO

• Land

• Money

• More buffalo

• Pathway to US citizenship

• Plants

How did the Homestead Act affect Native Americans?

• Break up reservations to be sold to individuals, not tribes

• The 160 acres of land granted was land taken from Native Americans

• Ordered settlers to kill the buffalo

• Forced Native Americans to European countries