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WorksheetsReassessment Unit 3: Growth & Growing Pains - Key Terms
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 25mins
Process of becoming an accepted part of a country, group, or mainstream culture—can be forced or voluntary
Assimilation
Immigration
Nativization
Socialism
The Dawes Act of 1887...
Confiscated & redistributed tribal lands in American West
Did not allow Native Americans to have separate family farms and have tribal governing system
Led to the Las Gorras Blancas and emergence of violence
Led to creation of reservations to isolate Native Americans
From the 1830s-1880s, the primary US gov't approach to Native Americans was all about REMOVAL & _____________, but this policy changed in 1887 (and again in 1930).
Reservations
Assimilation
Citizenship
Execution
What does indigenous mean?
Native to or originally from a specific place
Recently arrived to a specific place from somewhere else
Upset at new arrivals and wanting to protect those born here
The movement of people to urban areas
(3 correct answers, select them all)
The Homestead Act:
Encouraged westward settlement
Freely granted 160 acres to every head of household who applied
Created new tensions between Native Americans and new settlers
Broke up the reservations into individual homesteads to encourage assimilation
Was only for white male citizens
What was the economic impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on the West?
What battle between the US Army and the Sioux Nation began over the Ghost Dance ritual and is seen by history as the final battle in the Indian Wars?
The Battle of Sand Creek
The Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of Wounded Knee
The Battle of the Ghost Dance
a dance that the Native Americans believed would make white settlers leave and restore the buffalo to the Plains
Ghost Dance
Americanization
assimilate
reservation
Known for using ruthless tactics to destroy competition;
don't seem to contribute to society in any positive way
Captains of Industry
Socialists
This is the theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.
Nativists believed ..
New immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.
White Protestant Christians were superior to Eastern Orthodox Christians or Catholics.
New immigrants stole jobs from natives.
All of the above.
All of the above
This type of business practice sought to increase its profits by controlling a variety of different stages in the production and distribution (i.e. iron mine, coal mine, steel mill, trains)
Vertical Integration
Captain of Industry
Horizontal Integration
Industrial Revolution
Where were most Asian immigrants processed as they tried to enter the U.S.?
Angel Island
Ellis Island
Alcatraz Island
Guantanamo Bay
