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Expansionist |
Americans who favored territorial growth |
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Manifest Destiny |
U.S. was destined to own and control most of or all of North America |
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Oregon Trail |
Route pioneers followed westward to Oregon(Willamette Valley) |
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John O'Sullivan |
Journalist who expressed ideals that motivated American expansionists |
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman |
Missionaries to Oregon |
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Reservation |
Land set aside for Indians |
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Sand Creek Massacre |
Colorado militia attacked Cheyenne people |
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Sitting Bull |
Sioux chief that led rebellion against the white settlers |
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Battle of Little Big Horn |
A battle led by Crazy Horse in which Custer and 11 his men died |
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Chief Joseph |
Next Perces leader that led a group of refugees toward Canada and were stopped at the border - put on reservations in Oklahoma - traveled to Washington D.C. To lobby for his people |
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Wounded Knee |
1890 confrontation between Sioux and US cavalry that marked the end ofIndian resistance |
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Assimilate |
To be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
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Assimilate |
To be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
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Dawes General Allotment Act |
Replaced the reservation system with an allotment system - gave Indians land in hope of them embracing farming to live like white men |
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Dawes General Allotment Act |
Replaced the reservation system with an allotment system - gave Indians land in hopes of them embracing farming to live like white men. |
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Assimilate |
To be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
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Dawes General Allotment Act |
Replaced the reservation system with an allotment system - gave Indians land in hope of them embracing farming to live like white men |
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Dawes General Allotment Act |
Replaced the reservation system with an allotment system - gave Indians land in hopes of them embracing farming to live like white men. |
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Transcontinental Railroad |
Railroad that connected the Eastern and Western US |
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Assimilate |
To be absorbed into the main culture of a society |
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Dawes General Allotment Act |
Replaced the reservation system with an allotment system - gave Indians land in hope of them embracing farming to live like white men |
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Transcontinental Railroad |
Railroad that connected the Eastern and Western US |
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Why did Native Americans and the white settlers clash? |
The white man took the Indian land and destroyed their resources and the buffalo on which they depended |
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How did the Native Americans try but fail to keep their land? |
>fought a series of battle >attempted to make treaties with the US government |
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What steps were taken to assimilate Native Americans into the White's man's culture? |
>forced on reservations >forced their children to attend a boarding school and live as a white man |
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What effect did Sand Creek Massacre have on the American West? |
The Colorado militia attacked the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians so it caused the Plains Indians to unite to fight the white settlers |
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When did Wounded Knee take place? |
1890 |
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Where did Wounded Knee take place? |
South Dakota |
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Where did Wounded Knee take place? |
South Dakota |
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What was the result/significant in the lives of the Native Americans? |
After the massacre of 100 men, women and children by the US cavalry who wanted to stop the Ghost Dance Rituals, it ended the Ghost Dance War and most resistance to white settlement |
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Where did Wounded Knee take place? |
South Dakota |
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What was the result/significant in the lives of the Native Americans? |
After the massacre of 100 men, women and children by the US cavalry who wanted to stop the Ghost Dance Rituals, it ended the Ghost Dance War and most resistance to white settlement |
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What was the Homestead Act? |
In 1868 offered 160 acre plots of land to those who would live on the plot for five years |
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Send Creek Massacre 1864 |
Us troops kill unarmed Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians |
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Fetterman Massacre 1866 |
Sioux lure Captain William Fetterman and his troops into an ambush |
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Red River War 1874-1875 |
Series of conflicts ends with defeat of southern Plains Indians, Texas panhandle opened to white settlement |
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Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 |
Colonel George Custer need a huge Sioux force. Custer and all 250 of his men Perish |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
Ghost dance raises fear of Sioux uprising. More than 100 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee. |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
Ghost dance raises fear of Sioux uprising. More than 100 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee. |
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How did the Manifest Destiny encourage people to settle West? |
It helped motivate settlers to go West and justified US expansion |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
Ghost dance raises fear of Sioux uprising. More than 100 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee. |
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How did the Manifest Destiny encourage people to settle West? |
It helped motivate settlers to go West and justified US expansion |
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Who benefited from American expansion? |
Traders, Mountain Men, white man who settled the captured land |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
Ghost dance raises fear of Sioux uprising. More than 100 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee. |
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How did the Manifest Destiny encourage people to settle West? |
It helped motivate settlers to go West and justified US expansion |
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Who benefited from American expansion? |
Traders, Mountain Men, white man who settled the captured land |
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Who was harmed by American Expansion? |
Native Americans and Mexicans who lost their land, died fighting or was killed by settlers diseases |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
Ghost dance raises fear of Sioux uprising. More than 100 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee. |
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How did the Manifest Destiny encourage people to settle West? |
It helped motivate settlers to go West and justified US expansion |
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Who benefited from American expansion? |
Traders, Mountain Men, white man who settled the captured land |
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Who was harmed by American Expansion? |
Native Americans and Mexicans who lost their land, died fighting or was killed by settlers diseases |
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What role did mountain men and missionaries play in westward expansion? |
They explored the western regions and help identify passable routes and fertile valleys |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
Ghost dance raises fear of Sioux uprising. More than 100 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee. |
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How did the Manifest Destiny encourage people to settle West? |
It helped motivate settlers to go West and justified US expansion |
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Who benefited from American expansion? |
Traders, Mountain Men, white man who settled the captured land |
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Who was harmed by American Expansion? |
Native Americans and Mexicans who lost their land, died fighting or was killed by settlers diseases |
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What role did mountain men and missionaries play in westward expansion? |
They explored the western regions and help identify passable routes and fertile valleys |
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Why did settlers travel in wagon trains? |
for security and help from one another |
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Nez Perce' War 1877 |
He flees toward the Canadian border to avoid living reservation and were stopped and forced to surrender. |
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Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 |
Ghost dance raises fear of Sioux uprising. More than 100 Sioux are killed at Wounded Knee. |
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How did the Manifest Destiny encourage people to settle West? |
It helped motivate settlers to go West and justified US expansion |
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Who benefited from American expansion? |
Traders, Mountain Men, white man who settled the captured land |
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Who was harmed by American Expansion? |
Native Americans and Mexicans who lost their land, died fighting or was killed by settlers diseases |
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What role did mountain men and missionaries play in westward expansion? |
They explored the western regions and help identify passable routes and fertile valleys |
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Why did settlers travel in wagon trains? |
for security and help from one another |
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How many people/wagons traveled at one time? |
50-1000 people/ 10-100wagons |
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What hardships did the settlers face on the journey west? |
Hunger, Exposure, disease, poisoned, streams, danger of getting lost, Indian attacks |
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What hardships did the settlers face on the journey west? |
Hunger, Exposure, disease, poisoned, streams, danger of getting lost, Indian attacks |
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What opportunities was waiting for the settlers? |
Larger and better Farms |
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How did US government encourage the immigration west? |
It signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie with the Plains Indians protecting the settlers |
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How long was the Oregon trail? |
2000miles |
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How long was the Oregon trail? |
2000miles |
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How long did it usually take to complete the journeys? |
5 months |
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Indians |
1. Land was sacred 2. Gave back to the land 3. They were parts of nature |
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Settlers |
1. Viewed resources to produce wealth 2. Thought it was theirs to take 3. Waste resources of land -destroyed Buffalo |
