Moving West
These were factors that motivated westward migration.
The Native Americans living in the west were considered these types of people who moved from place to place.
What are nomads?
These popped up as a result of towns being developed specifically for raising cattle.
What are cow towns?
The homesteaders' home was made out of this type of material of grass and earth.
What was sod?
This is the amount of money in the national economy.
What is the money supply?
This act gave land grants to the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads to motivate development around railroads.
What was the Pacific Railway Act?
These were federal lands that were set aside for the Native Americans to live.
What are reservations?
This was the name of the trail that connected good grazing lands from San Antonio to Abilene.
What was the Chisholm Trail?
Homesteaders adopted this technique that included planting crops that did not require a lot of water.
What is dry farming?
What is deflation?
Congress gave acres to the states so they could sell them to raise money for agricultural colleges.
What was the Morrill Land-Grant?
Long before the settlers arrived, the Native Americans lived here in this area of the "West."
What were the Great Plains?
As popularity of beef shifted to raising cattle, the population of this other grazing animal was decimated.
What was the buffalo?
This is the idea that frontier life played a key role in forming the American characteristic.
What was the Turner thesis?
What was the bimetallic standard?
For the Homestead Act, recipients had to farm the land for this long before they could claim the land as their own.
What is five years?
Examples of this process included cutting the children's hair, stripping them of their traditional clothes and making them speak English.
What was assimilation?
This was a process of shoveling dirt into boxes and running water through it to find gold and silver.
What was placer mining?
Homesteading was hard living with these creatures sometimes hanging from the rooftops.
What were rattlesnakes?
This political party grew out of the advocacy of an increased circulation of money, progressive income tax and the 8-hour work day.
Who were the Populists?
The Mormons were an example of westward migration because they were leaving this in the East.
What was religious repression?
This act divided reservation lands into individual plots.
What was the Dawes Act?
The discovery of this valuable metal at Sutter's Mill, California spurred the surge of fortune hunters in 1848.
What is gold?
The concept of operations being controlled by big business to produce massive quantities of crops.
What are bonanza farms?
This network with members across the nation attacked monopolies, such as those controlled by railroads.
Who were the Farmers' Alliances?