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The first railroad built that crossed the nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific and was finished in 1869 after being built for 6 years.
Transcontinental Railroad
Mining technique using water to extract minerals beneath the surface.
Hydraulic
Invention that ended the Open Range
Barbed Wire
Set requirements for adding new states
Northwest Ordinance
3 branches of the government
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
People got up to 160 acres of land.
They had to stay on the land for 5 years.
They had to make improvements to the land.
Anyone could apply.
Homestead Act
Towns in Kansas that popped up for cattle ranchers on their way to market. These were places like Dodge City, Kansas.
Cow Towns
Forced march of thousands of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma was called what?
Trail of Tears
Movement of cattle from Texas to Missouri
Long Drive
Our "first" constitution, mostly gave power to the 13 colonies.
Articles of Confederation
Who were the people who physically built the railroad tracks?
Chinese, Irish and German immigrants who were paid low wages and suffered dangerous conditions.
Which political party tried to get better prices for crops and tried to get lower costs for railroad shipping.
Populist Party
The government wanted them to be farmers, to accept Christianity and to change the way they dressed. What is this called?
Assimilation
Abolitionists and pro-slavery people fought over admitting Kansas as a FREE state or SLAVE state. It was admitted as a free state just before the Civil War began. What was this fight called?
Bleeding Kansas
One of the mottos of the United States, means "out of many, one."
E Pluribus Unum
This law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
Dawes Act
This was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada, between 1896 and 1899.
Klondike Gold Rush
Major conflicts for control of the land and resources in the Great Plains
Range Wars
The trail used by pioneers to travel west. It was 2,200 miles long. Connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. A key migration route to the west.
Oregon Trail
This document was written as a "break-up" letter to Britain.
Declaration of Independence
The railroad company based on the West Coast that helped build the transcontinental railroad; starting point was Sacramento, California
Central Pacific
1862 legislation to encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad, connecting the West to industries in the Northeast (Union Pacific and Central Pacific RR)
Pacific Railway Act
Towns that popped up along the railroads as they were being built.
Boomtowns
Law aimed at "Americanizing" the Indian, 1887 law which gave all Native American males 160 acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other Americans
Dawes Act
Four ways to become a citizen:
1. Birth
2. Derivation
3. Acquisition
4. Naturalization