Westward Expansion
Homestead Act 1862
What is act that provided any adult citizen who never rebelled against the U.S 160 acres of land.
Ghost dance ritual
What is Native American Ritual to bring back the Indian ways and kill the white man
Sod houses
What are houses built out of grass, dirt, mud, and sticks
Cattle driver
What is the job of moving cattle from one place to another
U.S. wanted Indians to assimilate.
What does assimilate mean?
What is forget the Indian ways and become white people
Transcontinental Railroad
What is the first railroad that connected the east and west regions of the United States
White People's reason to move out west
What is the desire for the American dream and Gold
Dugouts
What are Homes carved out of the side of a hill
Cowboys
What are young men that drove the cattle on cattle trails to the railroads
The U.S broke the Native american's trust by
What is breaking treaties they made them sign
Union Pacific Railroad
What is Railroad that took citizens westward
African American's reason to move out west
What is Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, and KKK
Example of jobs out west
Farming and Cattle
Mining
Process of extracting useful minerals from earth
Custer's Last Stand 1876
What is battle of Little Big Horn where Colonel Custer and his men were slaughtered
Central Pacific railroad
What is Railroad built in 1863 that stretched from Sacramento to Utah.
Name given to African American's who migrated west in the late nineteenth century
What is Exodusters
Reasons for mining
Looking for Gold and Silver
Bonanza Farms
What are farms that operate like factories and specialize in making cash crop
Battle of The Wounded Knee 1890
What is battle murdered 300 unarmed Indians and ended the Indian wars
Length to travel from NYC to San Francisco at this time
What is Less than a week
Native American's reasons to migrate out west
What is U.S government breaking Fort Laramie Treaty
Ranchers
What is raising multiple large herds of animals on large tracts of land
600,000 cattle a year on this trail
What is the Chisholm Trail
Dawes Act 1887
What is the Assimilaton of the Native Americans