Technology
Laws
People
Reasons West
Native Americans
100
Which technology best helped settlers travel across difficult western terrain?
Transcontinental Railroad
100
This law removed Native Americans from their land in 1830?
Indian Removal Act
100
What was a prospector?
a person who went to find minerals such as gold
100
This was the reason people went to California, they were looking for...
Gold
100
Who was responsible for moving the Native American off their land?
The U.S. government
200
What is one physical feature or climate of the Great plains?
Flatland that rose gradually, Low Rainfall, Dust storms
200
This law gave settlers 160 acres of land on the Great plains.
Homestead Act of 1862
200
What is the name of a person moving west?
Settler or Pioneer
200
Some folks found work doing the following these while going west.
Railroad and mining
200
Who was responsible for killing off the Native American main food source?
Railroad companies, the government, settlers
300
What invention allowed settler to break up the hard dry sod?
Steel Plow
300
This law forced Native Americans to live on single family plots away from their tribe.
Dawes Act
300
Who faced persecution and mistreatment and forced them to the west ?
Former Enslaved people or Mormons
300
Some people went west due to land give by this act?
Homestead Act of 1862
300
This animal was the main food source for Native American, but was killed off.
Buffalo/Bison
400
What adaptation was to adjust to the lack of trees for building?
Sodhouse
400
Which act gave land to the railroad companies?
Pacific Railway Act
400
Manifest Destiny believed that the U.S. should...
Exist from coast to coast
Was a right and duty
400
Some people went west because of the efficient transportation called the
Transcontinental Railroad
400
This was the formal area Native Americans were forced to live once they were kicked off their land
Reservation's
500
What invention was used to help settler gain access to water?
Windmill
500
belief that the United States would benefit from expansion and had the right to expand its people and government across the North American continent.
Manifest Destiny
500
This group faced lost the most land due to westward expansion.
Native Americans
500
This group had just got freedom and wanted a new beginning..
Former enslaved people
500
This is when Native Americans were forced to look more American
Assimilation