Vocabulary
•This term means undeveloped area
What is frontier?
This invention was finished in 1869 and connected the East and West for the first time in U.S History
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This general lead the U.S calvary to their defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
This act passed in 1862 gave Americans a 160 acres of land and encouraged the Westward Expansion era.
What is the Homestead Act?
This term was used to describe what the cowhands went on to catch cattle and move them to different places
What is a cattle drive?
This term means Mexican cowhand/cowboys during the Cattle Kingdom.
What is a vaquero?
This invention was created in 1837 by Samuel Morse that allowed people to communicate long distances.
What is the telegram?
This Sioux leader along with Sitting Bull led the Lakota and Cheyenne into the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Crazy Horse?
This act passed in 1887 forced NA to give up their reservation lands to the U.S gov and to adapt to white ways.
What is the Dawes Act?
This battle was fought in 1876 in which Custer and his 300 men were wipped out by the Sioux/Lakota and Cheyenne Warriors.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
This term means a town that sprang up due to to the mining boom.
What is a boomtown?
This invention/tech was completed in 1825 that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes and allowed cities to grow.
What is the Erie Canal?
This man was the leader of the Lakota and constantly attacked the U.S for their broken treaties and led the Great Plains Wars against the U.S.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This treaty signed in 1868 promised that the Black Hills would remain the Lakotas and Sioux but was violated due to the discovery of Gold and Silver
What is the Treaty of Ft. Laramie?
This event was the final event in the conflicts between the Great Plains Indians and the U.S. in which 300 men, women and children were killed.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
This term was the trail used by the cowhands that went from San Antonio to Nebraska
What is the Chisholm Trail?
This invention invented in 1837 allowed for farmers to break through the top soil of the Great Plains and replaced its former material of wood.
What is the steel plow?
This Pauite prophet brought forth the Ghost Dance which promised NA return to paradise and land free of the white man.
Who is Wovoka?
This act passed in 1862 authorized the construction of the transcontinental railroad by giving land and money to the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railways.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This railroad company also helped build the TR. Chinese immigrants helped construct it and went from Sacramento to the East.
What is the Central Pacific Railway?
This term means across the country.
What is transcontinental?
In 1831, this technology was developed by John Deere that helped with the production of wheat and other grains.
What is the mechanical reaper?
This Native American was an Apache who was one of the last NA to fight the US against moving to reservations.
Who is Geronimo?
This treaty was signed in 1867 and was signed between the U.S. and Southern Plains Indians who agreed to move the reservations.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
This railway company helped build the TR. They employed Irish immigrants and freed slaves to build the railroad. They built from Nebraska to the West.
What is the Union Pacific Railway?