Go West, Young Man
Act of Congress
Life on the Plains
Conflict & Compromise
Native Lands & Iron Horses
100
African Americans headed toward the west primarily, what state?
Kansas
100
Congress passed the act
provided 160 acres of federal cheap land
increased western migration
Homestead Act of 1862
100
Under the 1887 _______________, any reservation land left over or not taken by Native Americans was sold to white settlers for a very low price.
Dawes Act
100
What word can be associated with the photo below? Do not say Native American.
Assimilation
100
You must get both:
The Indians used the buffalo as food, __________, and ___________. Among other things.
clothing and shelter.
200
Missionaries taught _____________ to Native Americans
Christianity
200
__________ provided states a federal land grant to build schools that would teach and promote scientific farming and engineering.
Morrill Land Grant
200
Because lumber was scarce in the west, settler made their homes out of what?
sod
200
Is cheap land a push or pull factor for leaving an area?
Pull
200
_______________ was the railroad that connected the East and West coast of the continental U.S.
Transcontinental Railroad
300
Settlers were migrating west towards the _______________.
Great Plains
300
This term,____________ describes the extreme pressure, starvation tactics, and military threats the U.S. government used to force Native American tribes into signing unfair treaties.
duress
300
____________ is the process of absorbing or blending into a larger group, culture, or structure so that distinct differences fade over time
Assimilation
300
_____________ is a new provision or rule that is added to existing legislation
Rider.
300
The army ordered all of the Lakota Sioux onto ________________. The ones that refused were rounded up.
Reservations
400
What did these two groups work on?
- Irish & Chinese immigrants
- The work was dangerous & difficult work
Transcontinental Railroad workers
400
Following the rise of the spiritual Ghost Dance movement, U.S. authorities feared the growing influence of this Lakota leader,______________, leading to his fatal arrest in December 1890.
Sitting Bull
400
During westward expansion, the near-extinction of the buffalo created a devastating ________ (fancy word) of food and cultural resources for Plains Native Americans.
scarcity
400
Lieutenant George Armstrong _________________ 's calvary attacked Lakota Indians without waiting for backup military units to arrive. This was known as the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Custer
400
_________ is the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Manifest Destiny
500
_________ were former slaves escaping the South.
They headed to Kansas because they were oppressed in the south.
Exodusters
500
___________ is the historic armed clash where a major 1876 conflict in Montana. A large coalition of Native American warriors decisively defeated a United States Army regiment.
Battle of Little Bighorn
500
________________ took place in 1890, when federal soldiers surrounded a Lakota camp to confiscate weapons, but a chaotic confrontation erupted, resulting in troops opening fire and killing up to 300 largely defenseless men, women, and children.
The Battle of Wounded Knee
500
You must correctly answer both of these to get the points.
Despite being guaranteed all of the land in the Black Hills under the ___________________ treaty, __________ was found. The US government tried to buy the the lands from them.
Fort Laramie and gold
500
Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual___________, or plots of land were allowed to become citizens.
allotment