Geographic Features/Climate
Occupational Groups
Ethnic Groups
Native Americans
More Native Americans
100
What is the major mountain range that causes a barrier for settlers traveling west?
What is The Rocky Mountains
100
What is the name of people who were searching for gold and silver?
What is the miners
100
What two ethnic groups helped build the transcontinental railroad?
Who are the Irish and the Chinese
100
At first, what was the relationship with Native Americans and the explorers in the West?
What is they cooperated.
100
How were the beliefs and traditions of the Native Americans ignored?
What is Native Americans were forced from their homelands to lands where their culture was not adapted. Native Americans had different ideas of land ownership than whites. They believed that the land belonged to the group, not individuals.
200
Settlers avoided traveling during these months because of harsh weather conditions
Winter and Spring
200
What were the names of the towns that grew quickly to serve the needs of miners?
What is Boom Towns
200
What was the result of the Mexican war in the 1840s?
What is Mexican Americans lost titles to their land.
200
What is the land called that Native Americans were moved on to by the settlers?
What are Reservations
200
What was the name of the act that took the tribal lands of the reservation and divided it up into farms for individual Native American families.
What is The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
300
What invention made it easier for settlers to travel west?
What is The Transcontinental Railroad
300
What two groups cooperated together to form the cattle industry?
What are the ranchers and the cowboys.
300
Where did European Americans live and who did they live with?
What is many could only afford to live in the East, and they lived in communities with other European Americans.
300
What animal did the Native Americans depend on for survival? What happened to this animal?
What is the buffalo/bison. The buffalo were killed by the Transcontinental Railroad and other settlers who shot the buffalo.
300
What were the agreements called between the US government and Native American tribes that allowed the Native Americans reservations and recognized their land ownership
What are treaties
400
This act allowed "squatters" to claim land and keep it
What is the Homestead Act of 1861
400
What group were the cowboys in conflict with?
What is the farmers
400
Why did Asian Americans come to the United States
What is to search for gold and help build the Transcontinental Railroad
400
What are the name of the wars that were marked by massacres by white soldiers of Native American men, women and children?
What are the Indian Wars
400
What was the cause of the Battle of Little Bighorn?
What is gold was found in the Black Hills on a reservation, and the Native Americans were forced off the land against their will.
500
What are the four major rivers settlers had to cross to get to the west?
What is 1.The Mississippi River, 2.The Columbia, 3.The Colorado and 4.The Snake River
500
What is the name of the invention the farmers made which made it hard for cowboys to herd their cows to the railroad depots?
What is the barbed wire fence.
500
The US government passed a law about the Chinese. What did this law do? Why did they pass this law?
What is the law excluded the Chinese from entering the US as immigrants. They passed this law because there was a competition for jobs.
500
What was the result of the Battle of Little Bighorn?
What is it created public support for a much larger military force that crushed Native American resistance in the area.
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