Let's Remember
This term was used to describe mining towns.
What are Boomtowns?
An act that encouraged settlement west and gave away free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
What are buffalo/bison?
Banned the immigration of Chinese workers into America.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Inexperience, extreme climate changes and bad soil.
Why did 60% of homesteaders fail?
About 200 native women, children and men were slaughtered by American soldiers
What was Wounded Knee?
African Americans moving west to escape the Jim Crow South.
What are exodusters?
Granted loans and land to railroad companies and passed the Homestead Act.
How did the federal government encourage settlement west?
To blend Native Americans into White society while leaving their culture behind.
What is assimilation?
Farmers who created new farming practices in order to survive in the west.
What are sodbusters?
Racial Persecution, bad jobs and to start a new life.
Why did people move west?
Act that aimed to separate and integrate Native Americans into white society.
What is the Dawes Act?
African Americans and Irish Immigrants
Who worked on the Union Pacific Railroad?
Important for trade and overall movement west.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200 American soldiers and Colonel Custer were ambushed by the Sioux tribe.
What was Little Bighorn?