2.1 Territorial Expansion
2.2 Cultural Clashes
2.2 Native Americans
2.3 Railroads and Farming
2.3 The Populist Movement
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The belief that it was the United States' destiny to expand west and conquer territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean
What is manifest destiny?
100

Two reasons that Europeans migrated west in the 1800s

What are the Gold Rush and free land?

100
Government lands to which Native Americans were forced to move to and live on
What are reservations?
100
Completed in 1862, this connected eastern railroads to western railroads, making cross country rail travel possbile
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100

Many populist supported this idea of basing the US dollar on both Gold and Silver. 

What is bimetallism?

200

In 1867, William Seward negotiated the purchase of what area from Russia for $7.2 million.  

What is Alaska?

200
The act that allowed anyone who cultivated 160 acres of land for five years would receive title to the land from the federal government
What is the Homestead Act?
200

This battle was the Native Americans' last great victory over the U.S. Army. 

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?

200
This made it possible to farm the tough prairie terrain of the West, helping to make farming a key western industry
What is a steel plow?
200
The movement that supported farmers and the "common man"
What is the Populist movement?
300

In 1890, this gentleman wrote the book The Influence of Sea Power upon History which made a convincing case that the US must build a powerful navy if it ever hoped to be a world power.

Who is Alfred Mahan

300

This legislation was passed to assimilate the Native Americans into US Culture?

What is the Dawes Act?

300
A law passed by Congress in 1887 meant to assimilate Native Americans into U.S. culture
What is the Dawes Act?
300
A major western industry due to available land and the fact that white settlers had learned proper ranching techniques from Mexicans
What is cattle ranching?
300
A famous speech given by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic Convention in which he called for free silver
What is the "Cross of Gold" speech?
400

The country the United States acquired California, Arizona, and New Mexico from

What is Mexico?

400

Also known as Custer's Last Stand.

Who are the Battle of Little Big Horn?

400

The last notable armed conflict between US troops and Native Americans occurred in 1890 at...

What is wounded knee?

400
Organizations through which farmers united to help one another economically and politically
What are cooperatives?
400
The position that the U.S. government should base the U.S. dollar on silver as well as gold
What is free silver?
500

The United States helped this country gain its independence from Columbia so we acquire some land from them

What is Panama?

500
Congress passed this act in 1882 to restrict Chinese immigration and was not repealed until 1943
Who are Chinese Exclusion Act?
500

The Sioux believed that this ritual would bring back the buffalo, return the Native American tribes to their land, and banish the white man from the earth. 

What is the Ghost Dance?

500
Despite the lack of timber, this made fencing possible for farmers in the West
What is barbed wire?
500
When this Republican president took office, it marked the end of the Populist Movement
Who is KcKinley?
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