Notes

Cassandra Betancourt 3/4/21 5th period
1. The California gold rush happened in 1849.
2. The US Army encouraged the slaughter of millions of buffalo because the army wanted to kill Native Americans and everything that keeps them alive.
3. The United States government was not treating the Native Americans fairly because they took away their culture, religion, and their homes.
4. Three examples why the Native Americans did not like the new Reservations where because
- Reservations were set up on the most barren, least fertile land.
- They were crowded, unsanitary, and had little economic opportunity.
- Tribes were moved again when oil was struck or resources were found.
5. The Central Pacific used unstable nitroglycerin to blast through the difficult terrain of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Definitions
1. Manifest Destiny is the idea that Americans should explore from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
2. The Homestead Act was a 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years
3. The Dawes Act used the allotment system, gave each Indian family 160 acres of land, and put Native Americans in schools and tried to civilize them.
4. Assimilation was a minority group’s adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominant culture,
5. The Morrill Act established institutions in each state that would educate people in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other professions that were practical at the time.
6. Land Grants were pieces of land given by the federal government to encourage railroad companies to build more railroads westward.
7. The Louisiana Purchase was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America. Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836.ion of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
8. The Annexation of Texas