WorksheetsTopic 01 Westward Expansion Academic Language
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 15mins
1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.
Americanization
Manifest Destiny
Homestead Act
Monroe Doctrine
The process of forcing someone to take on American characteristics even when not desired.
Manifest Destiny
Populism
Assimilation
Americanization
a political philosophy where politicians defend the ordinary people against a societies powerful elite (a)
foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere (a)
Match the following people
American Indian medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War
Sitting Bull
President who passed the Indian Removal act in 1830, actively pursued Indian removal.
Andrew Jackson
Candidate for president who ran in support of many Populist ideas
William Jennings Bryan
A republican politician who helped pass an act intended to assimilate Native Americans into the US.
Henry Dawes
Match the Acts to what they did
act passed by Congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with the Indians in the Southeast
Indian Removal Act
1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots
Dawes Act
1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years
Homestead Act
A formal agreement between two or more nations
Treaty
Free land given by the federal government to private companies, especially for building roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges
Land Grant
Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US
Grange
Trail of Tears
Transcontinental Railroad
Land Grant
public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government (a)
1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance
Indian Removal Act
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Wounded Knee
Trail of Tears
farmers' organization formed after the Civil War to organize and advocate for Populist ideas (a)
treating people with an attitude of superiority (a)
forced march of the Cherokee Indians to move west of the Mississippi in the 1830s (a)
to absorb a group into the culture of another population
Assimilation
Americanization
Populism
Patronizing
