Western Expansion Vocabulary Flashcards

1

What philosophy is concerning the treatment of Native Americans is evident from the picture?

2

What general was outnumbered & killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

3

What was Congress's motive for passing the Dawes Act of 1887?

4

Location of the Great Plains-area btw the Rocky Mtns & MS River

5

Populist were most interested in improving conditions for

6

What activity did the Homestead Act hope to encourage on the Great Plains?

7

Helen Hunt Jackson described the broken promises the Am. govt had given to the Native Am (book)

8

African Americans who went West after the Civil War as a way to escape racism in the South

Western Expansion Vocabulary