Westward Expansion & Native America Real

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Who were the Exodusters?

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African Americans who migrated from the South to the Great Plains following the Civil War.

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What was the Homestead Act?

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An 1862 federal law that granted tracts of land called homesteads to western settlers.

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What did the Transcontinental Railroad connect?

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The first continuous route connecting the East Coast and West Coast.

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What is a Reservation?

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An area of federal land reserved for Indigenous tribes.

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What happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

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1876 battle between federal troops and Lakota Sioux in which the US Army suffered an overwhelming defeat.

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What was the Dawes Act?

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An 1887 federal law distributing land to Indigenous individuals rather than to tribes.

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What is Assimilation?

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The absorption of people into the dominant culture.

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What was the purpose of Boarding Schools?

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Institutions whose goal was to assimilate Native children, cutting all language and cultural ties with tribes.

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What occurred at the Battle of Wounded Knee?

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1890 massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people in South Dakota by US soldiers

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Who was General Custer?

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US military officer who served in the Civil War and Indian Wars, killed in Battle of Little Bighorn.