Migration - Move around a country , Emigration - EXIT a country, Immigration - Move INTO a country , Transcontinental Railroad, Buffalo Soldiers , Homestead Act - settlement of U.S. western territory by allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land., Morell Land Act - allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S., Oklahoma Land Rush - The law was intended to open western lands to settlement by allowing those filing a claim to settle on up to 160 acres of unappropriated federal land for five years, Manifest Destiny - American settlers were destined to expand across North America, Monroe Doctrine - United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas, Louisiana Purchase - acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803., Mexican cession - Parts of southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U., Gadsden Purchase - was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico., Adams-Onis Treaty - Spain gave the US Florida, Exoduster - African American pioneers that moved west , Ghost Dance - A Native American religious movement , reservation system - established tracts of land called reservations for Native Americans to live on as white settlers took over their land., Dawes Severalty Act - authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots, Assimilation - the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs, Native American Resistance - Tribes fight back against moving onto reservations ,
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