2. attitudes of president and congress - Manifest Destiny

Question 1

when?

Answer 1

Start of period and into 20th century

Question 2

who?

Answer 2

Many Americans including presidents and members of Congress believed in manifest destiny

Question 3

what?

Answer 3

Land in West representing America’s freedom

Question 4

Government legislation which encouraged settlement

Answer 4

Homesteads Act = brought white settlers into conflict with NA

Question 5

what did belief encourage gov to do

Answer 5

to make grants of land that cut across Great Plains (where majority of NA lived) to rail companies.

Question 6

government legislation which encouraged railways

Answer 6

Pacific Railway Act 1862.

allowed rail companies to take sufficient materials for building of line from land alongside tracks.

Question 7

between 1850-1872 Government granted

Answer 7

155 million acres of lands

depriving NA of large tracts of land

Question 8

Government view that

Answer 8

NA must simply accept this and adapt