Causes of Westward Expansion
A law that offered 160 acres of land to settlers for a small fee.
What is the Homestead Act?
What was the PRIMARY reason for cattle drives in the 1800s?
To transport cattle to urban markets in the East
Homes made from grass and soil on the Great Plains.
What are soddies?
What was the main purpose of the Pacific Railway Act?
Construct a railroad
The main animal Plains Indians depended on.
What is the buffalo?
Precious metals that caused people to rush west and create boomtowns.
What are gold and silver?
The Chisholm Trail was used to:
What is drive cattle to meet the railroad?
Major challenges homesteaders faced.
What are droughts, hail, lack of trees, and/or locusts?
The two cities where construction began.
What are Omaha and Sacramento?
What was the purpose of Captain Pratt's Carlisle Indian School (and other schools like it)
What is Assimilation into mainstream culture
This belief justified Americans moving west and claiming land.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Roughly this fraction of cowboys were African American.
What is one-quarter (1 in 4)?
A financial problem caused by falling crop prices and rising costs.
What is debt?
The two companies that built the railroad.
What are Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
The 1876 battle where Native forces defeated Custer.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Which industries (name 2) played a significant role in attracting settlers to move West during Westward Expansion?
What are railroads, mining, farming, and ranching
A massacre that marked the end of armed Native resistance on the Plains
What is Wounded Knee
Two requirements settlers had to meet to earn land ownership/the deed to the land.
What are living on the land for 5 years and improving it/build a house?
What group of people were negatively impacted the most by Westward Expansion?
Who were Native Americans?
A law that broke up reservations into individual land plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
Two economic opportunities that pulled people west in the late 1800s.
What are land ownership and jobs (mining, ranching, railroads)?
A way African Americans built independence in the West.
What is creating farms, towns, churches, being a cowboy, or soldier
Why many farmers supported political reform movements.
What is unfair railroad rates and economic hardship?
2 Major effects of the railroad
What are increased trade, pollution / resource, time zones, settlement
The long-term result of railroad expansion for Native Americans.
What is displacement and loss of sovereignty?