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American History Unit 1 Part 1

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What were the requirements for receiving land under the Homestead Act?
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-Live on the land for five years -pay a small filing fee
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Who were the exodusters?
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Migrants, most who were former slaves, who left the South after the Civil War, and moved west.
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How were conflicts between homesteaders and American Indians resolved in the wake of the Homestead Act?
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The American government forced American Indians to leave the land.
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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
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First law restricting immigration from China for ten years.
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How were Mexican Americans discriminated against?
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-Worst paying jobs and working conditions -Laws to deprive them of their heritage -No legal justice
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What impact did the expansion of railroads in the West have on the American Indians who lived there?
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They were displaced from their tribal lands.
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The government's continuous changing of American Indian policy caused?
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Distrust of the federal government among American Indians.
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One of the main problems with the Indian reservation system was that government agents?
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Did not understand the power structure of American Indian tribes.
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In the reservation system, American Indian tribes were confined to assigned land with?
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defined borders
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Many Plains Indians had trouble living on the reservations because they were
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Nomadic hunters
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What was one provision of the Dawes Act of 1887?
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To divide and distribute land to American Indians.
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Supporters of the Dawes Act said the act would help American Indians to
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Become farmers
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What was the aim of the Dawes Act?
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To strongly encourage American Indians to become farmers
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Why was the Dawes Act passed?
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The Dawes Act was passed to make American Indians property owners and to open up more land for white settlers
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What is assimilation?
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Being completely absorbed into another culture, take on their characteristics.
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To promote assimilation, American Indian children were
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Forbidden to speak their native language
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Under the Indian Appropriation Act,
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American Indian tribes were no longer considered to be independent nations
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How did the policy of allotment impact American Indians?
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Many American Indian families received one hundred sixty acres of land.
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Under the allotment system, many American Indian families
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made an effort to succeed at farming but often failed
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Why is the Battle of Little Bighorn sometimes referred to as "Custer's Last Stand"?
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The Battle of Little Bighorn resulted in the death of General Custer and all two hundred of his troops.
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The conflict between the Sioux and U.S military at Wounded Knee marked
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The final battle in the American Indian Wars