Expansion: Indian Removal
Act
An
act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the
states or
territories,
and for their removal west of the river
That
it shall and may be lawful for the President of the
cause
so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river
Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the
Indian title has been extinguished [revoked], as he [the president] may judge
necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception
of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where
they now reside, and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so
described by natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from
every other. . . .
—
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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Based on this document, state one
way
that the Indian Removal Act of 1830 would affect many Native American Indians.
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important details about the passage?
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above. Answer in two –three
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Expansion: War with
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. . Instead of this, however, we have been exerting [putting forth] our best
efforts to propitiate [gain] her [
—
President James K. Polk, Message to Congress, May 11, 1846
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Based on this passage, state one
reason
President Polk asked Congress to declare war on
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is the author and where is the author
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is the author referring to?
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important details about the passage?
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Write
a complete answer to the question beginning with the incomplete sentence started
above. Answer in two –three
sentences.
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Expansion: The Mexican
War
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. . Regarding it as a war [Mexican War] to strengthen the “Slave Power,” we are
conducted to a natural conclusion, that it is virtually, and in its
consequences, a war against the
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Resolution passed by the Massachusetts Legislature opposing the Mexican
War;
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According to this resolution, what was one
reason
the
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important words in the reading.
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Who
is the author and where is the author
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is the author referring to?
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important details about the passage?
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Write
a complete answer to the question beginning with the incomplete sentence started
above. Answer in two –three
sentences.
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Expansion: Kansas-Nebraska
Act
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Stephen
Douglas replied to Abraham Lincoln’s question about the Kansas-Nebraska Act in a
speech given at
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. . The next question propounded [put forward] to me by Mr. Lincoln is, can the
people of a Territory in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of
the United States, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a
State Constitution? I answer emphatically, as Mr. Lincoln has heard me answer a
hundred times from every stump [platform] in Illinois, that in my opinion the
people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits
prior to the formation of a State Constitution. Mr. Lincoln knew that I had
answered that question over and over again. He heard me argue the
by
local police regulations. Those police regulations can only be established by
the local
legislature,
and if the people are opposed to slavery they will elect representatives to that
body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of
it into their midst. If, on the contrary, they are for it, their legislation
will favor its extension. Hence, no matter what the decision of the Supreme
Court may be on that abstract question, still the right of the people to make a
slave Territory or a free Territory is perfect and complete under the
Source:
Stephen Douglas,
According to this document, how did the
Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories?
[1]
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is the author and where is the author
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is the author referring to?
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important details about the passage?
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Write
a complete answer to the question beginning with the incomplete sentence started
above. Answer in two –three
sentences.
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Expansion: The Homestead Act
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. . With the secession of Southern states from the
Local
land offices forwarded the paperwork to the General Land Office in
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National Archives and Records Administration, Teaching
with Documents: The Homestead Act of 1862
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According to this document, how did the Homestead Act encourage the settlement
of the West? [1]
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Who
is the author and where is the author
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is the author referring to?
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Three
important details about the passage?
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Write
a complete answer to the question beginning with the incomplete sentence started
above. Answer in two –three
sentences.
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Expansion: Railroads
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. . Sec.2. And
be it further enacted, That
the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to
said company [The Union Pacific Railroad Company] for the construction of said
railroad and telegraph line; and the right, power, and authority is hereby given
to said company to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road,
earth, stone, timber, and other materials for the construction thereof; said
right of way is granted to said railroad to the extent of two hundred feet in
width on each side of said railroad where it may pass over the public lands,
including all necessary grounds for stations, buildings, workshops, and depots,
machine shops, switches, side tracks, turn-tables, and water stations. The
or
disposed of by said company within three years after the entire road shall have
been
completed,
shall be subject to settlement and preëmption, like other lands, at a price
not
exceeding
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to be paid to said company. . .
.
— The
Pacific Railroad Act, July 1, 1862
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According
to this document, what did the federal government give the Union Pacific
Railroad Company to help them construct the railroad and the telegraph line?
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b
According
to this document, how did the Pacific Railroad Act help the
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is the author and where is the author
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is the author referring to?
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Three
important details about the passage?
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Write
a complete answer to the question beginning with the incomplete sentence started
above. Answer in two –three
sentences. (Use the Back of this
page for your answer)
Expansion: Affect on Native
Americans
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“.
. . The white man, who possesses this whole vast country from sea to sea, who
roams over it at pleasure, and lives where he likes, cannot know the cramp we
feel in this little spot, with the underlying remembrance of the fact, which you
know as well as we, that every foot of what you proudly call America, not very
long ago belonged to the red man. The Great Spirit gave it to us. There was room enough for all his many
tribes, and all were happy in their freedom. But the white man had, in ways we know not of,
learned some things we had not learned; among them, how to make superior tools and terrible
weapons, better for war than bows and arrows; and there seemed no end to the
hordes [huge numbers] of men that followed them from other lands beyond the
sea. “And so, at last, our fathers
were steadily driven out, or killed, and we, their sons, but sorry remnants of
tribes once mighty, are cornered in little spots of the earth all ours of
right—cornered like guilty prisoners, and watched by men with guns, who are more
than anxious to kill
us
off. “Nor is this all. The white
man’s government promised that if we, the Shoshones, would be content with the little patch allowed
us, it would keep us well supplied with everything necessary to comfortable
living, and would see that no white man should cross our borders for our game,
or for anything that is ours. But
it has not kept its word! The
white man kills our game, captures our furs, and sometimes feeds his herds upon
our meadows. And your great and mighty government – Oh sir, I hesitate, for I
cannot tell the half! It does not protect us in our rights. It leaves us without
the promised seed, without tools for cultivating the land, without implements
[tools] for harvesting our crops, without breeding animals better than ours,
without the food we still lack, after all we can do, without the many comforts
we cannot produce, without the schools we so much need for our children. . .
.”
—
Chief Washakie of the Shoshone tribe from a speech to Governor John W. Hoyt of
the
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According to this document, what were two
criticisms
that Chief Washakie had against the white man and/or the federal government?
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Who
is the author and where is the author
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is the author referring to?
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important details about the passage?
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Write
a complete answer to the question beginning with the incomplete sentence started
above. Answer in two –three
sentences.
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