Native Americans
This act provides for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.
What is the Dawes Act?
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This act granted adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.
What is the Homestead Act?
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This state had the first gold rush in the United States.
What is California?
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This act provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States
What is the Pacific Railway Act of 1862?
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This is the belief that Americans were meant to settle all the lands from Atlantic to Pacific because it was their God given right.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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The Dawes Act emphasized this, which pushed for individual land ownership rather than tribal land ownership.
What is severalty?
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This is what homesteaders had to do in order to "improve the land" to file for ownership after 5 years.
What is cultivate or farm and prove continuous residence?
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This professional football team in California is named for the miners who rushed to the gold fields in that year.
What are the 49ers?
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These two companies were authorized to build the rail lines.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
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The Louisiana Purchase from this country allowed for the expansion of the country to the Pacific Ocean.
Who was France?
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The Dawes Act was passed on this date.
What is February 8, 1887?
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The Homestead Act was passed on this date.
What is May 20, 1862?
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This is the year the Pikes Peak Gold Rush started in Colorado.
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The Union Pacific Company employed mostly immigrants from these nations.
What are Ireland, Germany, and Italy.
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The United States fought with this country that upon victory added much of the land in the Southwest to the United States.
Who was Mexico?
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This word describes the US Government's approach to turning Indigenous Americans into farmers and making them wear "white" clothing.
What is assimilation?
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The Homestead Act benefitted Union soldiers by deducting this from their residency requirements.
What is time served in the Union Army?
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This precious metal is actually responsible for one of the worst financial crashed in the state of Colorado, well after the gold rush was over.
What is Silver?
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The Central Pacific Company employed mostly immigrants from this nation.
What is China?
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This metal was found in several different strikes West of the Mississippi and was the reason for rushes of people to the West.
What is Gold?
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These three tribes are examples of tribes who were excluded from the Dawes Act.
Who is (any 3 of the following) Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Osage, Miamies Peorias, Sacs and Foxes, or the Seneca Nation of New York
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Despite the intentions of the Homestead Act, most land was bought up by these groups of people.
(Must get at least 2) Who are speculators, cattle owners, miners, loggers, and railroad companies?
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This is the term used to describe gold that can be gathered from surface mining methods like panning and sluicing.
What is placer gold?
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Providing government bonds to fund the project and large grants of lands for rights-of-way is also known as this.
What is federal subsidies?
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What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
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