ETHS 101 FINAL
Pan-Indianism - correct answer ✔A social movement in which tribes not
united by kinship join together in a common cause
Dawes Act (1887) - correct answer ✔Reservations surveyed, divided into
tracts, and allotted to individual members; surplus land sold
Battle of Little Big Horn - correct answer ✔Custer's Last Stand, was an
armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern
Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United
States Army. The battle, which occurred June 25-26, 1876, near the Little
Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of
the Great Sioux War of 1876.
Indian Removal Act - correct answer ✔1830 - mandates all american indians
must move west of the Mississippi river
Trail of Tears - correct answer ✔In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew
Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its
lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day
Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears,"
because of its devastating effects.
Forced Assimilation - correct answer ✔A process of forced cultural
assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, into an established and
generally larger community
Wounded Knee I - correct answer ✔white people afraid of ghost dance,
massacred 150 - 1890
, Wounded Knee II - correct answer ✔1972 AIM occupies same place - 71 day
siege, AIM surrenders
AIM - correct answer ✔Native American civil-rights activist organization,
founded in 1968 to encourage self-determination among Native Americans
and to establish international recognition of their treaty rights.
1913 California Alien Land Act - correct answer ✔prohibited "aliens ineligible
for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases
over it, but permitted leases lasting up to three years.
Magnusson Act - correct answer ✔also known as the Chinese Exclusion
Repeal Act of 1943, was immigration legislation proposed by U.S.
Representative (later Senator) Warren G. Magnuson of Washington and
signed into law on December 17, 1943 in the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 - correct answer ✔The Chinese Exclusion Act
was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May
6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in
US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
Boat People - correct answer ✔refers to refugees who fled Vietnam by boat
and ship after the Vietnam War, especially during 1978 and 1979, but
continuing until the early 1990s.
Pensinados - correct answer ✔refers to the law which allowed qualified
Filipino students to study in the United States. Passed on 26 August 1903 by
Governor General William Howard Taft's government through the Philippine
Commission, this act provided funds for such students, called Pensionados, to
acquire their college degrees at American schools.
Pan-Indianism - correct answer ✔A social movement in which tribes not
united by kinship join together in a common cause
Dawes Act (1887) - correct answer ✔Reservations surveyed, divided into
tracts, and allotted to individual members; surplus land sold
Battle of Little Big Horn - correct answer ✔Custer's Last Stand, was an
armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern
Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United
States Army. The battle, which occurred June 25-26, 1876, near the Little
Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most prominent action of
the Great Sioux War of 1876.
Indian Removal Act - correct answer ✔1830 - mandates all american indians
must move west of the Mississippi river
Trail of Tears - correct answer ✔In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew
Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its
lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day
Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears,"
because of its devastating effects.
Forced Assimilation - correct answer ✔A process of forced cultural
assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, into an established and
generally larger community
Wounded Knee I - correct answer ✔white people afraid of ghost dance,
massacred 150 - 1890
, Wounded Knee II - correct answer ✔1972 AIM occupies same place - 71 day
siege, AIM surrenders
AIM - correct answer ✔Native American civil-rights activist organization,
founded in 1968 to encourage self-determination among Native Americans
and to establish international recognition of their treaty rights.
1913 California Alien Land Act - correct answer ✔prohibited "aliens ineligible
for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases
over it, but permitted leases lasting up to three years.
Magnusson Act - correct answer ✔also known as the Chinese Exclusion
Repeal Act of 1943, was immigration legislation proposed by U.S.
Representative (later Senator) Warren G. Magnuson of Washington and
signed into law on December 17, 1943 in the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 - correct answer ✔The Chinese Exclusion Act
was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May
6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in
US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
Boat People - correct answer ✔refers to refugees who fled Vietnam by boat
and ship after the Vietnam War, especially during 1978 and 1979, but
continuing until the early 1990s.
Pensinados - correct answer ✔refers to the law which allowed qualified
Filipino students to study in the United States. Passed on 26 August 1903 by
Governor General William Howard Taft's government through the Philippine
Commission, this act provided funds for such students, called Pensionados, to
acquire their college degrees at American schools.
