Inventions
Allowed ranchers to keep better track of livestock better than using standard wood fences.
What is barbed wire?
Any adult citizen or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
A legal document that is signed regarding the ownership of property or legal rights.
What is a deed?
The 19th century belief that the expansion of the U.S. was justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Invented the telegraph that changed the way of communication.
Who is Daniel Morse?
Machine that helps harvest more crops in a shorter amount of time with less labor.
What is the reaper?
Provided a 10 year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the U.S.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Name given to African Americans who migrated to the Western territories from the eastern and southern states.
What are exodusters?
Chinese and Irish immigrants worked on it to connect the U.S. from Sacramento to Missouri.
What was the Trans-Continental Railroad?
Invented barbed wire
Who is Joseph Glidden?
An invention that automatically turned to face the wind direction and was a useful tool for farming and allowed ranchers and farmers to have easy access to underground water.
What is the American Windmill?
Gives the President (Andrew Jackson) power to negotiate removal treaties with Native Americans living East of the Mississippi River
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Farming in which all of the crops or livestock are used to maintain the farmers and their families.
What is subsistence farming?
John Muir proposed creating a federally administered and protected park surrounding the Yosemite Park.
What was the 1888 National Park Proposal?
Tried to negotiate with the U.S. government, and led his tribe to Canada to avoid war.
Who is Chief Joseph?
Used high-pressurized water to blast away large amounts of Earth and could also build underground pipes to run water through to defrost frozen ground
What is Hydraulicking?
What was the Dawes Act of 1887?
Excessive or prejudice support for one own's cause or group.
What is chauvinism?
U.S. government attacked Native Americans, which resulted in 200 killed that were mostly women and children that were tortured and scalped.
What was the Sandcreek Massacre?
He proposed the National Park Proposal of 1888
Who is John Muir?
The process of separating heavily eroded metals from sand or gravel, which made mining more affordable and accessible.
What is placer mining?
Provided the U.S. states and territories with public land to establish colleges for the benefit of developing the agriculture and mechanic arts industries.
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862?
People who were often criticized by Christians for being in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
What are Mormons?
Around 150-300 Natives lost their lives in this event. Native Americans trusted the U.S. where they were going, but the U.S. betrayed them. While, they were in a Ghost Dance, Forsyth told them to stand down, but a weapon went off which led to a massacre.
What was the Wounded Knee?
Led an attack against 60 white men who were hunting buffalo.
Who is Quanah Parker?