Railroad
The name of the railroad that stretched from East to West.
Transcontinental Railroad
Exodusters
True of false; Native Americans welcomed the change that came with moving to a reservation.
False.
Technology that helped farmers in the west plow through the tough sod.
Steel plow
Settler who claimed land through the homestead act.
Homesteader
The Central Pacific started on this side of the country.
The west
The two groups that conflicted over the rights to the best areas of land to mine.
Individual Miners and Big Mining Companies
Nez Perce.
Technology that helped pump water from deep underground and helped make the Great American Desert into America's Breadbasket.
Windmill
People who move to a new country with plans to live their permanently.
Immigrant.
How did the railroad affect bison?
Group of people that had disagreements over cattle drives.
Cowboys/Ranchers
The Battle of _______________ was both a victory and a defeat for the Native Americans.
Little Bighorn
Quick and easy way to get across the continent
Transcontinental Railroad.
Native American Tribe that defeated General Custer
Lakota
How did the railroad benefit the United States?
Helped make a profit; moved raw materials to the factories in the east
Farmers put up these to keep Cowboys off of their farms.
Barbed Wire Fences
The battle in which Native Americans tried to escape their reservation but were surrounded and hundreds of Native American women, children and men were killed.
Battle of Wounded Knee
Area of land set aside for Native Americans
Reservation
The Union Pacific started on this side of the country
The East
White settlers discriminated against this group of people over good farmland in Mexico.
Mexicans
Battle in which Crazy Horse helped lead the Lakota to victory against U.S. forces.
Battle of Little Bighorn
Law that offered free land to American citizens that were willing to start new farms on the Great Plains
Homestead Act