Unit 1: Land & Indigenous Resistance

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Across
  1. 1. President who sent Lewis & Clark to explore the Louisiana territory
  2. 3. When Columbus and his men landed here, they encountered the Arawaks
  3. 4. System that motivated European nations to compete for land and resources, prioritizing profit over people
  4. 6. exerting cultural, economic, or military influence over another country
  5. 7. Fruit company whose leader helped overthrow Queen Liliuokalani in Hawai'i
  6. 9. St. Patrick's battalion switched sides and began fighting for this country in 1846
  7. 10. Became a U.S. state in 1959
  8. 13. Location of a brutal massacre of Arapaho & Cheyenne people by US troops
  9. 15. Florida was acquired by the US from this country
  10. 16. territory purchased from Russia in 1867
  11. 18. President who ignored the Supreme Court to enforce the Indian Removal Act
  12. 19. Land that is sacred to the Lakota Sioux
  13. 20. This is how Texas and Hawaii officially became US territory
  14. 21. The most successful indigenous uprising of the colonial period, in Santa Fe
Down
  1. 1. first permanent British settlement in the North America
  2. 2. Following the Trail of Tears, the US government shifted to a policy of forced this towards indigenous people
  3. 5. President who provoked a war with Mexico to take land
  4. 6. where Columbus *thought* he was when he first landed in the New World
  5. 8. Built primarily by Chinese & Irish immigrants to the US
  6. 10. system in colonial Virginia where paying for someone's passage to the colony was rewarded with free land
  7. 11. Sioux warrior who became a household name at the Battle of Little Bighorn
  8. 12. cash crop raised in Hawai'i
  9. 14. The nomadic way of life for the Lakota was closely tied to this
  10. 17. The indigenous view of land as something that cannot be owned