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Moniker for the men and women who flocked to California to seek their fortune in Gold in 1849.
Who were the 49ers?
The belief that the United States had the divine right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Form of transportation made possible by steel and the steam engine that, in the 1850's and 1860's, all but eclipsed canals as the primary form of transportation in the United States.
What are reailroads?
Treaty in 1868 between the Sioux and the US Government that promised the Black Hills to the Indians.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
Founder of a religious sect that was ostracized and forced west in large part due to its practice of polygamy.
Who was Joseph Smith?
Former slaves from the south who settled the Great Plains in search for land and opportunity.
Who were exodusters?
What was the Homestead Act?
The precursor to railroads, in the form of waterways, this form of transportation fell out of favor due to its lack of speed.
What are canals?
Massacre in 1890 that marked the end of the Indian Wars and where Sitting Bull was shot by Indian Police.
What is Wounded Knee?
Leader who in 1821 led 300 families from Virgnia to settle in Texas, then part of Mexico.
Who was Stephen Austin?
Group of people who herded longhorn from the southwestern plains to the railroads north, helping meet the need for beef in the growing cities.
Who are cowboys?
1872 painting showing Lady Columbia floating over the western landscape, and is an embodiment of Manifest destiny.
What is American Progress?
Mountain range crossed by poineers going on the Oregon Trail.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Events in 1832 where Indians in Illinois and Wisocnisin, led by Chief Black Hawk, clashed with the US Army.
What is the Black Hawk War?
Populist candidate who ran unsucessful campaigns for president in 1896, 1900, and 1908; know for his famous Cross of Gold speech.
Who was William Jennings Bryant?
Act passed into law in 1887 that effectively sequestered plains Indians into permanent reservatiuons.
What is the Dawes Act?
Well known trail used by western settlers that originated in St Louis, Missouri, crossed the Rocky Mountains and ended in Portland, Oregon.
What was the Oregon Trail?
European power that colonized Mexico for 300 years before Mexico won independence in 1821.
What is Spain?
Epic defeat by the 7th Cavlary in 1872, also known as "Custer's Last Stand."
What is Battle of Little Bighorn?
Leader of Mexican forces furing the Battle of the Alamo, also the president of Mexico.
Who is General Antonio López de Santa Anna?
Asian country from which many railroad workers came.
What is China?
In addtion to religious conflict and dispute about taxes, this institution, which Mexico wanted to ablosh the practice of, is a major reason Texans seeked independence from Mexico in 1836.
What is slavery?
Movement from one country or region to another.
What is migration?
In 1864, the U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Legendary warrior ofthe Oglala Lakota who helped defeat Custer at Battle of Little Bighorn; a monument to is being carved out of a side of a mountain.
Who was Crazy Horse?