Land Acquisition
America's belief that it was her "God given" right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is Sacramento and Omaha?
Plains Native Americans relied primarily on this animal for survival and to fulfil their cultural traditions.
What is the buffalo?
Populist felt that this industry was taking advantage of them and overcharging them.
What is the railroad industry?
This is what people who were coming to California looking for gold in 1849 were called.
What is forty-niners?
This land acquisition doubled the size of the U.S. & included the port of New Orleans
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What is 5 days?
Custer's arrogance led to the death of himself and his approximately 200 troops when he led his men into battle against 2,500 Native Americans at this location.
What is Little Bighorn River?
Who is William McKinley?
This state was known as the Lone Star Republic & was it's own country for almost 10 years.
What is Texas?
This treaty ended the Mexican American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Chinese Immigrants had to work around and sometimes through this mountain range.
What is the Sierra Nevada mountain range?
Word used to describe the Americanization of Native tribes, often forcing them to adopt the American language, and abandon their culture.
What is assimilate?
Populists supported this idea of both the gold and silver standard.
What is bimetalism?
The invention of this revolutionized ranching practices in the United States and helped us to close the frontier.
What is barbed wire?
These two countries decided to jointly occupy the Oregon country.
What is the United States and Britain?
A first class ticket on the transcontinental railroad costed approximately this much.
What is $150?
The practice of this Native American tradition to restore buffalo herds and traditional way of life led to the slaughter of approximately 250 Native Americans.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This group wanted gold standard, tight money, less money in circulation to ensure loans are repaid with stable money.
President During the acquisition of the Oregon Territory and Texas Annexation
Who is James Polk?
Treaty that acquired the territory of Florida.
What is the Adams Onis Treaty?
This is the place where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met.
What is Promontory Utah?
This act broke up reservations and forced many Native American boys into boarding schools to assimilate them.
What is the Dawes Act?
He is often compared to the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?