A Growing Nation
The long journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
An undeveloped area, in this case the western part of what is now the United States.
What is frontier?
Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans.
What are reservations.
The nickname for Plains farmers who completed the hard work of breaking up sod.
Who were sodbusters.
A member of the Shoshone, who knew several Native American languages, and helped with the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea.
A senate approved agreement that doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase.
Long journeys where cowboys herded cattle to the market or for grazing on the northern Plains.
What is cattle drive.
Troops, including African Americans, who forced Indians to leave areas of the West.
Who are buffalo soldiers.
A new method of farming that took focus away from water-dependent crops, like corn, and shifted to wheat.
What is dry farming.
An Ogala Sioux chief that led a group who ambushed and killed 81 cavalry troops.
Who was Crazy Horse.
A former army captain who led an expedition to find a river route to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Meriwether Lewis.
Communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.
What are boomtowns.
An agreement between the U.S. government and southern Plains Indians, in which Indians agreed to move onto reservations.
What is the Treaty of Medicine Lodge.
African American migrants who made a mass departure from the south to settle the West in the late 1800s.
Who are Exodusters.
A Chiricahua Apache who led raids on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border.
Who was Geronimo.
In 1775, this person and 30 others cut a continuous road through the Cumberland Gap.
Who is Daniel Boone.
A vast open range of the Great Plains from Texas to Canada, that many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800s.
What is The Cattle Kingdom.
The first major treaty between the U.S. government and Plains Indians.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
A law passed by Congress to encourage people to settle in the West, by giving small farmers government-owned land.
What is the Homestead Act.
A leader of the Lakota Sioux who protested U.S. demands for land.
Who was Sitting Bull.
A young army officer who was taken captive by the Spanish cavalry during his search for the starting point of the Red River.
Who is Zebulon Pike.
A huge deposit of gold and silver found in Nevada by miner Henry Comstock.
What is the Comstock Lode.
In 1887, Congress passed Legislation that split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship.
What is the Dawes General Allotment Act.
A federal law passed by Congress that gave land to western states to encourage them to build colleges.
What is the Morill Act.
A leader of Nez Perce, who resisted moving to a reservation and tried to seek refuge in Canada.
Who was Chief Joseph.