Unit 6

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Andrew Jackson

  • Indian removal act in 1830


Cherokee

  • Part of 5 civilized tribes

  • Many owned plantations


Trail of Tears

  • Moved many Cherokee from southern states into Oklahoma

  • ⅓ died


Manifest Destiny

  • “American Progress”

    • Bringing industrialization/civilization to the west

  • America’s god-given right to rule coast to coast


Mexican-American War

  • America takes a lot of land from Mexico


James Polk

  • Took a lot of land for America


Ulysses S. Grant

  • Says the U.S. is becoming like  European nation

  • Civil war fixed that


Railroads

  • Industrialization brought to America with railroads

  • Many indigeounous land is taken

  • Companies killed many buffalo

    • Got in the way of trains

    • Led to Indigeonous resistance


Battle of Little BigHorn (1876)

  • Americans try to subdue resilient Indians

  • Custer: Led the American troops

  • Indians resist by fighting Americans

    • Too many of them for Custer to handle

  • Americans lose at first

  • Loss causes more troops to be sent to expel Indians


Dawes Act (1888)

  • Gave Indiand individual land instead of reservations


Indian Boarding Schools

  • Tought English and Christianity


Ghost Dance Movement

  • Prophet Wovoka

    • Tells natives to return to previous ways of life

    • His teaching spread throughout the west

  • Indian agents put natives on Pine Ridge reservation

  • Wounded Knee

    • Massacre of 300 natives after gun goes off

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Guano Islands Act (1856)

  • Any island that had guano can be claimed by the U.S.


Hawaii

  • Reprocity Treaty (1885)

    • Put military base on Hawaii

  • Annexation (1898)

    • Makes Hawaii a U.S. territory


Spanish-American War (1898)

  • Spanish were mistreating Cubans

  • U.S. helped Cuba gain freedom

    • Treaty made U.S. part of Cuban government


Panama Canal (1904)

  • Teddy Roosevelt

  • U.S. helped Panama fight off Colombians

    • Gave U.S. a foothold in panama canal


Japan

  • Adopts social darwinism for Imperialization


Russia

  • Lost Ruso-Japanese War

  • Build Trans-Siberian Railway

  • Rusification

    • Expanded land and added people into Russian culture


South-East Asia

  • French take control of many parts for rubber

    • Lots of resistance


New Zealand

  • New Zealand Wars (1840-1870)

    • Colonizers want more land for gold and farms

    • Massive deforestation

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Push + Pull Factors

  • Push factor: Why people are leaving a location

  • Pull factor: Why people are going to a location

    • Many people are going to different places to find labor


Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  • Limited Chinese from immigrating to the U.S.

  • Made by Irish immigrants so the Chinese wouldn’t take their jobs