Westward
The ______________ of 1862
Homestead Act
The expansion of the US into the west had its greatest impact on?
Native Americans
What region did settlers use tools like the steel plow and windmills to make productive farmlands?
The Great Plains
How did the steel plow help farmers on the Great Plains?
because of new inventions, people no longer saw the Great Plains as a treeless wasteland but as what?
a new area to settle
Which group did Westward expansion affect most negatively?
Native Americans
People mainly moved west during the California Gold Rush in 1849 because....
Many former enslaved African Americans moved west because of a desire for?
a new beginning
materials to build a shelter were limited
Name THREE adaptations to life in the West?
-Sod Houses
-Dry Farming
-Beef Cattle
How did the Transcontinential Railroad transform life across America?
it provided an economic link between east and west states.
What was the result of the Battle of Wounded Knee
Many Lakota people were massacred, marking the end of the Indian Wars
How did the building of railroads affect Native Americans of the Great Plains?
Loss of Buffalo herds which took away important resources
How did the completion of the Transcontinential Railroad impact the economy of the West?
it provided access to new markets for local goods
What forced Indians to adopt mainstream white culture?
Native American Boarding Schools
Which invention had the greatest impact on the Westward expansion?
The Transcontinential Railroad
Why would settler on the Great Plains have used barbed wire?
Mark territory boundaries with other settlers
Native Americans lost their culture and traditions as they were confined to reservations and forced to farm as a way to assimilate is known as ?
Dawes Act
Name FOUR geographic characteristics of the Great Plains region?
-Dust storms
-Flatlands that rise to the west
-Land eroded by wind and water
-Low rainfall
What effect did barbed wire have on Texas during the late 19th century?
it led to the end of open range. (boundaries)
Which Indigenour leader quoted "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph
What was the effect of the Dawes Act?
Assimilation attempts
Fierce and brave apache who fled to Mexico and staged raids against incoming white settlers
Geronimo
Lakota Spirtual Leader who led his people across the Plains to avoid capture by US soldiers, but eventually surrendered and was foeved onto a reservation
Sitting Bull