Manifest Destiny
Dawes Act
Wounded Knee
Reservation
Assimilation
This is the gradual process by which an ethnic, racial, or religious group merges into the dominant surrounding population.
The idea that the U.S. had a God-given right to expand its border westward to the Pacific Ocean.
An area of land where the U.S. government forced Indians to live; usually less than desirable land.
This 1887 law required Native Americans to give up their "Indian" ways and adopt "American" ways.
This is the site in South Dakota where, in 1890, US soldiers massacred over 150 Lakota men, women, and children.
