Geography & West Lands
Tools & Technology
Economy & Railroads
Cooperation & Conflict
Indian Conflict
100
Major mountain range in the mid-west
What is Rocky Mountains
100
This tool helped bring water from underground to the surface to water crops.
What is windmill.
100
This group of people worked on the railroad from the west to the east.
What is Asians.
100
These two groups of people fought over who could use the land for mining.
What is Prospectors and Mining Companies
100
Reformers believed doing this with Indian children would help them prosper.
What is send them to boarding schools to learn to be "white"
200
Five major rivers crossed by settlers traveling west.
What is Mississippi, Missouri, Columbia, Snake & Colorado
200

This tool created conflict between cowboys and farmers by separating and blocking off land to keep animals contained. 

What is barbed wire.

200
This group of people worked on the railroad from the east to the west.
What is Europeans
200
The White Americans brought up conflict with this group of people because they were not born in America.
What is Europeans.
200
To try and "americanize" the Indians, the government gave them each land to use for this, which they failed at doing.
What is farm
300
Climate of the West.
What is Hot dry summers, snowy harsh winters
300
This tool broke through the hard ground so that the land could be cultivated.
What is steel plow.
300

This animal was most affected by the railroad expansion.

What is Bison or buffalo.

300
Cowboys and farmers disagreed because cattle would do this.
What is destroy crops.
300
The transcontinental railroad took the Indians land and brought the end of this other very important part of Native America's way of life.
What is Bison.
400
At first, many believed the Great Plains were not good for this.
What is farming.
400
This tool helped harvest multiple rows of crops at once.
What is mechanical reaper.
400
These were towns that popped up where they found gold to provide the prospectors with goods and services.
What are Boom Towns.
400
This group of people were forced to move south as white settlers took their land for farming.
What is Mexicans.
500
The act that allowed people to move to western lands and tend to them for five years in exchange, they got to keep the land for free.
What is the Homestead Act
500
This advancement helped to develop meat markets and flour mills in the east.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad.
500

What were at least 2 main economic opportunities for settlers?

What is fur trading, mining, ranching & farming

500
African Americans who moved west were known by his name.
What is Exodusters
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