Moving West
The process of obtaining minerals.
What is mining?
A resource the Native Americans used religiously for its goods.
What is a buffalo?
A region of the great planes where the primary crop was wheat.
The wheat belt.
They followed the buffalo and used them for all there needs.
What is a Nomad?
Lack of food and water, snake bites, Indian attacks, and traveling accidents.
What are the dangers of westward expansion?
The belief that the US was meant to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A popular house on the plains made of dirt.
What is a sod house?
Farmers would plant seeds deep in the soil for more moisture.
What is dry farming?
Yearly payments from the government promised to the Dakota people.
What are annuities?
A nickname for farmers who plowed the Plains, used a new method of farming to grow wheat in the dry environment.
What is a sodbuster?
A city in a cattle-raising area of western North America.
What is a cowtown?
The settler had to be 21 years old.
What is the age requirement for the Homestead Act?
Massive wheat farms that brought huge profits to there owners.
What are bonanza farms?
Cheifs Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull lead a tribe in the Dakota Territory.
What is the Lakota tribe?
This purchase of land inspired people to move west.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A rapid transport system throughout the West.
What is a railroad system?
When tons of bugs would surround their camp and swarm everything.
What is a locust storm?
In the 1880s the US became the #1 exporter of this crop.
What is wheat?
Led to the death of 14 soldiers and between 69 - 600 Cheyenne.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
The US government displaced native Americans from their ancestral lands onto these.
What is a Reservation?
Found the richest silver mine in American history but sold it not knowing its value.
Who is Henry Comstock?
A Government program that allowed people to buy up to 160 acres of land for a $10 registration fee.
What is the Homestead Act?
Renting land from someone but still being able to work on it.
What is tenant farming?
Tricked Captain William Fetterman and 80 soldiers into pursuing what they thought was a small raiding party.
Who is Crazy Horse?
Believed it would be impossible to settle the "Great American Dessert."
Who is Major Stephen Long?