| A | B |
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| Oklahoma | Nicknamed "Indian Territory", this is where Indians east of the Mississippi River were sent. (342) |
| Trail of Tears | The Cherokee's forced journey to Indian Territory in 1838. (343-344) |
| Indian Removal Act | The 1830 law that allowed the federal government to pay Native Americans to move west to Indian Territory. (342) |
| Seminole | The name for the Native Americans who used guerilla tactics against the U.S. in their struggle to remain in Florida. (344-345) |
| The Five Civilized Tribes | Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw & Choctaw - the largest Native American groups in the Southeast. (341) |
| Cherokee | They adapted to American culture and won a Supreme Court decision, but most were forced off their homeland in the Smoky Mountains anyway. (343) |
| Worcester v. Georgia | The Supreme Court decision won by the Cherokee in 1832. (343) |
| Andrew Jackson | This U.S. President supported the relocation of Indians to Oklahoma. (342-343) |
| Meriwether Lewis | President Jefferson chose him to lead a journey to explore the American West. (284) |
| William Clark | Meriwether Lewis chose him to co-lead the expedition. He drew the first accurate maps of the American West. (284) |
| Thomas Jefferson | This President quickly made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, doubling America's size. (283) |
| France | The nation America purchased the Louisiana Territory from in 1803. (283) |
| Louisiana Territory | The vast area that stretched from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky Mountains. (283) |
| Gilded Age | (1870s-1900) - Period that appeared prosperous, but was actually corrupt. |
| Manifest Destiny | America’s belief that it should expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean |
| Transcontinental Railroad | effects of this new technology included time zones, moving goods and people faster, national markets and growth of cities |
| Dawes Act | Law giving male Native Americans 160 acres of land for free and would become citizens |
| Homestead Act | law that Promised settlers 160 acres of land for $1.65 an acre |
| pull factors | Positive Factors that attract a person to a new location |
| push factors | Negative Factors that cause a person to leave a location |
| sod houses | settlers built their homes due to lack of lumber |
| buffalo chips | Settlers burned this in roder to heat their homes and cook food due to no trees |
| famine | not enough food, starvation |
| drought | not enough rain, can't grow crops |
| reservations | Where Native Americans were forced to live |
| americanization | Forced assimilation into white culture and language |
| rural isolation | farmers struggled with being alone out west |
| Great Palins | Rolling, treeless plains covered in short, thin grass, |
