Technology
This invention helped cattle farmers
Barbed Wire
Moving west offered freedom, especially for this group
African Americans
Land set aside for Native Americans
Reservations
Native Americans were killed over war dance rituals.
Wounded Knee Massacre
This type of agriculture was used the most in the West
Dry Farming
This began in 1848 and led to the mass movement west of people who were hoping to get rich
California Gold Rush
These were for Native American children to be assimilated into American culture
Indian Schools
Another name for the Battle of Little Bighorn
Custer's Last Stand
The new method of transportation that connected the east to the west
Transcontinental Railroad
This law gave 160 acres of land to anyone who promised to move west and settle
Homestead Act
The law that created reservations
Indian Appropriations Act
This was a win for the Native Americans over the U.S. government
Battle of Little Bighorn
This group mostly built the railroad
Chinese immigrants
Where the automobile industry was located
Detroit
List two negative effects about life on reservations
-bad farming land
-many different tribes lived there, some who didn't get along
-Small spaces -> greater disease
-Cultural mix ups
Native American leader who resisted westward expansion
Geronimo
Where were centers of markets/factories mostly located?
Cities
Where the hair care/cosmetics industry was located
St. Louis
Law that allowed reservations to be divided up into lots of individual land
Dawes Act
Leader of the Nez Perce who resisted forced relocation to reservations and attempted to move with his tribe to Canada
Chief Joseph