Topic 01 Westward Expansion Academic Language

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.

• Americanization

• Manifest Destiny

• Homestead Act

• Monroe Doctrine

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The process of forcing someone to take on American characteristics even when not desired.

• Manifest Destiny

• Populism

• Assimilation

• Americanization

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a political philosophy where politicians defend the ordinary people against a societies powerful elite​ (a)  

• populism
• Americanization
• assimilation
• Manifest Destiny
• Grange
• Monroe Doctrine

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

foreign policy doctrine set forth by President Monroe in 1823 that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere​ (a)  

• Monroe Doctrine
• Manifest Destiny
• Dawes Act
• Homestead Act
• Indian Removal Act
• Treaty

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

Match the following people

• Andrew Jackson

• A republican politician who helped pass an act intended to assimilate Native Americans into the US.

• William Jennings Bryan

• 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.

• Henry Dawes

• Candidate for president who ran in support of many Populist ideas

Match the Acts to what they did

• Dawes Act

• Free land given by the federal government to private companies, especially for building roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges

• Indian Removal Act

• A formal agreement between two or more nations

• Homestead Act

• 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots

• Treaty

• act passed by Congress in 1830 that allowed the federal government to negotiate land trades with the Indians in the Southeast

• Land Grant

• 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

• Grange

• Trail of Tears

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Land Grant

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government​ (a)  

• reservation
• land grant
• grange
• populism
• homestead
• Homestead Act
• Sitting Bull

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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)  

• Grange
• patronizing
• Homestead
• Treaty
• reservation
• populism