Western Expansion
What historian believed that the frontier was the single most important factor in developing American History?
Fredrick JAckson Turner
As settlers moved west, what major animal population was hunted for profit and sport to the point of near extinction?
The Bison( or bufflo)
Attraction or facination
ALLURE
Railroad .companies printed posters offering cheap land in states like Iowa and Nebraska. What was their main goal?
To encourage the settlement of western territories.
Why did the US government break the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie with the Sioux nation?
Gold was discovered in the Black Hills
easily understood or obvious
Manifest
Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows were famous, but what were two major effects they had on American culture?
They portrayed the West inaccurately and helped create unique American identity.
Name one negative consequence of the Dawes Act of Native Americans
It forced them to abandon their communal way of life, and many were tricked into selling their land to white settlers for low prices.
A unit in an army
regiment
According to Turner's "Frontier Thesis" ,name two character traits that the American gain from the frontier life.
Strength, individualism, practical minds, restless entergy
What was the main purpose of government institutions like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
To force the cultural assimilation of NAtive American Children.
a decision, usually by government, not to punish a person or group that has committed a crime
amnesty
According to the map on page 6. What happen in the United States between 1870-1890?
Ten new territories in the West became States
the adoption of the ways of another culture
assimilation
Native American women and Children
Squaws and Papooses