160 acres per household and 5 year minimum to make land work
What is The Homestead Act?
100
The image on painting we discussed in class.
What is a woman/angel?
100
The settlers, after the Civil War, had a new target to use their guns for. (This angered the Natives)
What is the buffalo?
100
The people that taught American cowhands how to ride and rope.
Who are vaqueros?
100
The dominant immigration group that build the Railroads
What the Chinese ?
200
This caused the break up of Native American Lands and essentially the break up of Tribe Cultures. Native Americans will be relocated if they don't accept the Homestead deal.
What is The Dawes Act?
200
This President made the Louisiana Purchase
What is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Land used for Native American Relocation
What is Reservation?
200
A travel of herds of cattle to a specific destination.
What is a cattle drive?
200
The government issued _________ __________ to build the railroads
What Land Grants?
300
Another term for "AMERICANIZE" the Native American
What is Assimilation?
300
The motivation to move to California
What is the gold rush
300
Sitting Bull and Crazy horse are part of this tribe
What is the Sioux Indians?
300
Large herds of wild and free-roaming cattle. Found in Texas
What are longhorns?
300
The place that both R.R. Companies met (the picture of them with the bottle and glass)
What is Promontory Point Utah?
400
Freedmen that left for Kansas after the Civil War.
What is an Exoduster?
400
An enclosure or fencing of a property was possible thanks to...
What is a barbed wire?
400
Colonel who led troops against Indians in The Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is George A. Custer?
400
Cowboys moved the cows north to the....
What is to the Railroads?
400
The final piece to the completion of the first Transcontinental railroad line.
What is a golden spile?
500
The slaughter of 300 unarmed Sioux Native Americans, including Children.
What is Wounded Knee?
500
List the dangers of moving west
What is drought, blizzard, outlaw and Indian raids?
500
From 1830 to 1890, the U.S. Government systematically followed a policy of ______________ the Native Americans from their Lands
What is pushing or removing? (super easy 500 question)
500
The cows taken to Chicago
What are for slaughter
500
In 15 years the country had ________ transcontinental railroads