Factors of Westward Expansion
This connected the East and West Coasts, for the first time connected the continent.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
This group received less pay, harsher conditions and jobs, sometimes had to pay for food, while building the transcontinental railroad.
Who were Chinese Immigrants?
This act attempted to solve assimilation "issues" by offering 160 acres to families and 80 to individuals .
What is the Dawes Act?
Process of stripping Native culture and way of life into white American culture and way of life.
What is Assimilation?
A transfer of public land to individuals and groups.
What is a land grant?
People understood boundaries, but cattle ran free, and had cowboys round them up following the brands on cattle from owners in this system.
What was an open-range system?
This group was the first voluntary migration of African Americans, and ultimately led to a path for migration and the growth of towns.
Who were the Exodusters?
The discover of gold caused white settlers to break a treaty already put in place, leading to this war.
What was the Sioux War?
Used tactics of removal, relocation, schooling, acts & treaties in attempt to do this.
Ways white settlers attempted to assimilate NA?
This group came into play because they were able to fund the operations and the ability needed to dig.
Who were Big Businesses?
This offered plots of 160 acres, only if you agreed to live on the land for 5 years, dig a well, and build a road.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
This group was segregated, housed in cramped railroad cars, and were paid less due to their religion and language during the construction of the Transcontinental railroad.
Who were Irish immigrants?
This began to appear as NA felt that it would bring back their loved ones and rid the land of whites, but ultimately caused fear for white settlers.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Specific areas that Indians would be relocated to in order to confine Indigenous groups while Americans claimed more land.
What is a reservation?
Consisted of tending the family and farm, entrepreneur boarding schools, laundry, bakery, etc.
What was the role of Women in farming?
This factor caused the growth of boom-towns, creating many opportunities for settlers.
What was mining?
The land was too dry and hard, and thought inhabitable by white settlers until the plow.
What is the Great Plains?
Fear from the Ghost dance led to this massacre.
These were put in place to assimilate Native Americans. These would be put in place to teach the American Culture and way of life to Native Americans.
What were Indian boarding schools?
This animal was sacred to NA, and essentially supplied all resources for them. The killing of these ultimate ruined NA way of life.
What was the mass killing of buffalo?
Unsanitary, lack of lumber, weather, cramped, hard labor, lack of safety, long hours, lonely, lack of minerals, uncertainty, etc.
What is the struggle of Homesteaders?
What is competition?
This caused the white settlers to want further assimilation.
What were the Indian Wars?
This act untimely broke up tribal lands and tribes, led to insufficient profit, ended up with land in the hands of white settlers, forced NA to accumulate to American way of life, and ultimately hurt NA.
What is the Dawes Act?
led to loss of land, resources, culture, and safety, ultimately leading to Native Americans choosing violence or submission.
What were broken promises and treaties?