Settlement
These factors motivate people to leave or move to a new place.
What are push and pull factors?
This system confined tribes to specific areas with government oversight.
What is the reservation system?
These towns sprang up quickly when gold was discovered.
What are boom towns?
Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad began in this year.
What is 1863?
These two metals were discovered in the West and sparked migration.
What are gold and silver?
This 1849 event drew thousands to California in search of wealth.
What is the California Gold Rush?
In 1864, Union troops attacked this Cheyenne settlement despite a treaty.
What is Sand Creek?
These towns were abandoned when surface minerals were gone.
What are ghost towns?
This immigrant group primarily worked on the Central Pacific Railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
This event in 1849 led to rapid settlement and economic growth in California.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This 1862 law gave settlers 160 acres of land for farming.
What is the Homestead Act?
These two Sioux leaders resisted U.S. troops during the Great Sioux War.
Who are Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
This term describes the movement of cattle from Texas to Kansas.
What is the Long Drive?
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in this state.
What is Utah?
Boom towns were known for this due to rapid growth and lack of law enforcement.
What is lawlessness?
On April 12, 1889, 50,000 settlers rushed into this territory to claim land.
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush?
This spiritual movement led to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This group of cattle herders included African Americans and learned from Mexican vaqueros.
Who are cowboys?
The railroad reduced travel time across America to just over this duration.
What is one week?
This happened to towns when the minerals were gone.
What is abandonment or becoming ghost towns?
This Native American tribe originally had land set aside in Oklahoma before settlers claimed it.
Who are the Seminole?
This 1887 law aimed to Americanize Native Americans by giving them private land.
What is the Dawes Act?
These homes were built from grass and soil due to lack of wood on the Plains.
What are sod houses?
This invention helped end the Long Drive by fencing off farmland.
What is barbed wire?
Mining towns influenced this pattern of movement and development in the West.
What is settlement?