Vocabulary
The belief that Americans had the right to expand west and settle the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny
Lumber, land, minerals
What are raw materials found in the west?
160 acres of land was purchased by people know by this name.
What are Homesteaders?
Who is no one?
The ship sent to Cuba when Americans there were worried about their safety.
What is the USS Maine?
False or exaggerated reporting.
What is yellow journalism?
The connection between the east and west starting in Nebraska and ending in California.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
What are 160 acres of land?
The amount of buffalo on the open plains in 1865.
What is 15 million?
The name of the group of battleships sent around the world in 1907.
What is the Great White Fleet?
This word means added.
What is annexed?
These ended in railroad towns, where cattle were carried by train to Chicago and then further east.
This was cut into bricks and used to build homes.
What is sod?
This act that forced Native Americans give up their own, more valuable land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The isthmus of this country that connects the North and South American continents and had a very important passageway made through.
What is Panama?
Areas of land where Native Americans were relocated to.
What are reservations?
What is the Gold Rush?
Used to help protect crops or keep animals from wandering away.
What is barbed wire?
Known for leading the Native Americans in the victory of the "Battle of Little Big Horn".
Who is Sitting Bull?
He was the U.S. Secretary of State who organized the purchase of Alaska for the United States.
Settlers of the prairie were called this because of how they had to cut through thickly rooted grass or sod.
These are the names of the railroad companies that met and formed the transcontinental railroad.
What are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads?
This inventor made a "stronger plow made of steel".
Who is John Deere?
A Nez Perce leader who surrendered and said "I will fight no more together".
Who was Chief Joseph?
These desired economic factors led the U.S. to annex Hawaii.
What are pineapple and sugarcane?