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    This document provides vocabulary words and definitions relevant to 8th grade social studies unit 1 topic 1. Key terms include: 1) Indigenous - inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists. 2) Reservation - an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States. 3) Massacre - an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people. The expansion westward negatively impacted indigenous people through loss of land, poverty, and cultural assimilation. Additional terms like ravine, indiscriminate, and truce provide further context.

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    This document provides vocabulary words and definitions relevant to 8th grade social studies unit 1 topic 1. Key terms include: 1) Indigenous - inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists. 2) Reservation - an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other agreement with the United States. 3) Massacre - an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people. The expansion westward negatively impacted indigenous people through loss of land, poverty, and cultural assimilation. Additional terms like ravine, indiscriminate, and truce provide further context.

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    8th grade Unit 1 Topic 1 Vocabulary

    Supporting
    Question
    Word Definition

    institutionalized established in practice or custom

    ancestral of, belonging to, inherited from, or denoting an ancestor or ancestors.


    How did the idea Manifest Destiny, and the reality
    of westward expansion affect indigenous people of

    is an area of land reserved for a tribe or tribes under treaty or other


    agreement with the United States, executive order, or federal statute or
    reservation
    administrative action as permanent tribal homelands, and where the federal

    The American West and the American Indian Experience


    government holds title to the land in trust on behalf of the tribe.

    an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people. deliberately and violently kill (a


    massacre
    the western frontier?

    large number of people).

    (of people) inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from
    Indigenous
    #6

    before the arrival of colonists.

    Poverty the state of being extremely poor.

    assimilate cause (something) to resemble;

    of or relating to a commune or community. : shared or used in common by


    communal
    members of a group or community.

    person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in


    missionaries
    a foreign country.

    shingled cut (a woman's hair) in a shingle/short bob.

    distress extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

    refuge a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.


    8th grade Unit 1 Topic 1 Vocabulary
    Supporting
    Question
    Word Definition

    untidily scattered.
    How did the idea Manifest Destiny, and

    strewn
    the reality of westward expansion
    affect indigenous people of the

    The American West and the American Indian Experience


    an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting or arguing for a
    #6-continued

    western frontier?

    certain time.
    truce

    a deep, narrow gorge/canyon/gully with steep sides.


    ravine

    done at random or without careful judgment


    indiscriminate

    Additional Vocab Needed:


    • Ravine- a deep, narrow gorge/canyon/gully with steep sides.
    • Hotchkiss guns- The Hotchkiss revolving cannon was a rotating barrel weapon invented in 1872
    by Benjamin B. Hotchkiss (1826–1885)
    • Perfidies- deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.
    Panacea- a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.

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