8th Grade (2025) Illuminate Unit 1

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assimilate

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To integrate or be absorbed into the culture of a population or group

ex. Native Americans practicing Christianity instead of native religions

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Why Americans moved West of Mississippi River ?

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-Homestead Act-free land if settled and maintained for at least 5 years.

Opportunities- Careers in ranching, mining , and Careers in Colleges/Universities that were built in the West. Single women also were able to own property in the West.

Manifest Destiny- God given right for America to expand in the West all the way to Pacific Ocean.

Railroads made traveling to the West easier and cheaper.

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Impact on Native Americans

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Native Americans were negatively impacted where they have to leave their native lands and travel to remote Indian Reservations. Their culture was destroyed like destruction of the Bison that the Natives relied on for various things. Natives also had to assimilate to white culture where speaking their native languages, practicing their native religions, and wearing their native clothing was not accepted. Children were forced into boarding schools.

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Reconstruction Era

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Formerly enslaved people were now free, but laws restricted where Blacks could live and do.

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Manifest Destiny Image

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American Expansion after Civil War

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New technologies brought people west faster and cheaper. (ex. railroads)

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Why many African American families most likely left the South during Reconstruction?

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They hoped to find better economic opportunities and more social freedom in northern states.

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Which idea best relates to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision?

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separate but equal

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What argument did Justice Harlan state with his dissenting (disagreeing) with the ruling of Plessy vs Ferguson ?

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Segregation laws were a violation of African Americans' 14th Amendment rights.

14th Amendment granted former slaves citizenship where they were suppose to have equal protection of the laws.

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To raise awareness of a horrifying situation that was taking place across the South