Westward Expansion 1
John Deere created this
What is the steel plow?
Thomas Jefferson
Who is the president that purchased the Louisiana Purchase?
Sacagawea
Who was the interpreter on the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
It speeds up harvesting allowing for more crops to be grown.
What is the reaper?
it allowed farmers to fence in their land and livestock
What is barbed wire?
the ethnic group that the Central Pacific used to build railroads and pay less to perform the most dangerous tasks
What is the Chinese?
the ethnic group that the Union Pacific used to build the railroad across the Great Plains
What is the Irish?
the year that the Louisiana Purchase was made
What is 1803?
wrote the Life Among the Paiutes in which traditional Native American life was portrayed
the last major incident between the US army and Native Americans on the Great Plains
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
political group that wanted federal regulation of railroad rates
What is the National Grange?
the reason that the Cattle Kingdom was important for the rest of the U.S.
What is that it provided food for the growing population in the East?
the political group that wanted to back paper currency with silver
What is the Free Silver Movement?
What is the Homestead Act?
the political group that wanted government ownership of telegraphs, telephones, and railroads
the trail that was used for people to trade
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
trail that people took to get to fertile land
What is the Oregon Trail?
trail that people took for religious freedom
What is the Mormon Trail?
U.S government sent Native American children to boarding schools for this reason
What is to "Americanize" them?
faster transportation, more raw materials shipped to the East, and more manufactured goods shipped to the West
What are three effects of the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are the groups of people who settled in the Great Plains?
gave federal land to states for agricultural colleges
What is the Morrill Act?
place where the "Golden Spike" was driven into the ground uniting the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads
What is the Promontory, Utah?