What is broke up reservations and made Native Americans into individual property owners.
200
What is Americanization?
What is having Native give up their traditions and and adopt the culture of white America.
200
What was the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
What is agency that managed Indian reservations and Indian life.
200
what was the homestead act?
What is gave 160 acres to any head of a household who would build a home and work the land.
300
what was life like on the Indian reservations?
What is very difficult to maintain traditions, children sent to English schools, and the land was not good for farming
300
How did mining lead to new settlements in the west?
What is as people came west to search for gold and silver, mining camps grew up, and towns began to develop.
300
what is the Morrill Act?
What is gve land to states to provide colleges.
400
What were the consequences of the Indian wars?
What is decades of violence resulting in the forced settlement of native Americans on reservations.
400
why did mining become big business?
What is when surface deposits of gold ran out, only big companies could afford the equipment needed to get the gold.
400
What encouraged farmers to settle in the west?
What is homestead act, Oklahoma land run, railroads selling land to settlers.
500
What set the stage for conflict between settlers and Native Americans in the west?
What is government took their land, the destruction of the buffalo, difference in the cultures
500
How and why did the cattle boom start and come to an end?
What is demand for beef increased in eastern cities. severe winters and barbed wire.
500
What groups moved west and why?
What is white settles for cheap land, African-Americans fled violence in the south, Europeans for economic opportunities, Chinese immigrants for jobs on the railroad.