Westward
This allowed people to now be able to travel from NYC to San Fran in less than a week in 1876.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What were the main groups of people in the West?
Who were the Native Americans, Whites, Chinese, and the African Americans?
What were the main jobs an immigrant could get?
What were Farming, mining, cattle drivers, cowboys, and Cattle Trails?
What types of homes were in the West?
What are sod houses and dugouts?
Which Indians signed treaties that the U.S government broke?
Ex: Fort Laramie Treaty
Who were the Plains Indians?
Which Railroad is going westward?
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?
These immigrants worked on the railroad, paid 1/3 of European workers, and were asked to do the most dangerous jobs.
Who were the Chinese?
These young men drove the cattle on cattle trails to the Railroads, 1/3 Mexican or Black.
Who were cowboys?
These houses were made out of grass, dirt, mud, sticks, and anything to build a home.
What are sod houses?
The process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society
What is assimilation?
Which Railroad was going Eastern?
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
These immigrants wanted the American Dream, Gold, and Land.
Who were the Whites?
These tools were used for what job?
Mechanical Reaper, Steel Plow, and Barbed Wire.
What is farming?
These houses were built on the side of a hill.
What are dugouts?
What is the assimilation of Native Americans?
What is the Dawes Act?
What was the reason people wanted to move out West?
What is reconstruction in the South?
This is known as mass Migration leave the South and go West.
What is Exodusters?
This job is perfect if you are looking for gold or silver.
What is a prospector?
What word (s) best describe the conditions in the west?
What are terrible, awful, dangerous, unfair, etc?
This is the slaughter of 300 unarmed Indians, ending Indian wars.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
This act was passed by Lincoln during the Civil War, available to ALL people except those that rebelled against the US.
What is the Homestead Act?
This is a Native American Ritual to bring back Indian ways and to kill the white man.
What is the Ghost Dance?
How many cattle were on the Chisholm Trail a year?
What is 600,000?
These farms operated like factories, with huge machinery, managers, and workers who specialized in making a Cash Crop.
What were Bonanza Farms?
In what year did the Census Bureau say that Frontier is Closed, meaning there is no more land to grab?
What is the year 1890?