What best describes the experiences of Chinese and Latin American immigrants who came to North America to join in the California Gold Rush?
Most experienced racial and ethnic discrimination and were used as scapegoats for others' failures.
What was "The Lone Star Republic?"
Texas, as an independent country from 1836 - 1846.
Homestead Act of 1862 gave "free" land to many people
Homesteaders
Left the east for religious freedom (especially polygamy)
Mormons
Herded millions of cattle
Cowboys
Remember the______________
Alamo
Stephen Austin was:
granted the right to start a colony in Mexico, introduced illegal slavery, brought 300 families to the colony
Who were the "Forty-Niners?"
Gold prospectors in California
Prospectors who had gold fever for minerals in California
Miners
White settlers in Mexico were upset by:
Spanish language, dominance of the Roman Catholic Church, outlawing slavery
Manifest Destiny in the 1800s believed:
white supremacy (especially Europeans), Native Americans were inferior, Christian missionaries wanted to convert Indians
Group of former, black enslaved people moving west, especially Kansas
Exodusters
What was one major reason that the Republic of Texas declared independence in 1836?
Disagreement with Mexico over the legality of slavery.
California became a state in 1850. What problem did this cause?
It entered the Union as a free state, upsetting the slave state/free state balance in Congress.
What happened at Wounded Knee, South Dakota Territory, in December of 1890?
The U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry killed over 150 Lakota Sioux, many of them unarmed women and children.
Workers and immigrants who connected the east and west
Railroad workers
What is forced assimilation?
Involuntary process of cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups during which they are forced to adopt language, identity, norms, and customs
What was the Dawes Act of 1887?
A U.S. government act intended to force assimilation of indigenous peoples by forcing Native Children into boarding schools and making Natives farm
Indigenous people forced to move further west
Native Americans
Who was Antonio López de Santa Anna?
Mexico's president and respected military leader who sent Mexican troops to end the American settler revolt in Texas. He was captured at the Battle of San Jacin
Which of the following best describes the result of the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors killed the entire U.S. 7th Cavalry.
What were the outcomes of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Mexico accepted the Rio Grande River as the southern border of Texas, gave up land to the Pacific, agreed Texas was part of US
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