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The first American overland expedition to the Pacific Coast, exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase to map the territory.
Who was Daniel Boone?
A U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by offering 160 acres of public land to adult citizens.
What was the Chisholm Trail?
The massive, booming cattle industry in the American West after the Civil War.
What was the Cattle Kingdom?
A pioneering Northern Paiute leader, author, activist, and educator.
Who was Sarah Winnemucca?
A U.S. law granting federal land to states to fund colleges.
What was the Morrill Act?
An American explorer, soldier, and government official best known for co-leading the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Who was Meriwether Lewis?
A U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by offering 160 acres of public land to adult citizens.
What was the Santa Fe Trail?
The system set up by the railroad companies divided the country into four time zones.
What was standard time?
An American religious leader, the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Who was Brigham Young
Agreements between the U.S. government and various Plains Indian tribes.
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
An American explorer famous for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Who was William Clark?
A roughly 2,000-mile wagon route from Missouri to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
What was the Oregon Trail?
African Americans who settled western lands in the late 1800's.
Who were exodusters?
A German-born American merchant who became the first American multi-millionaire, building vast wealth through fur trading.
Who was John Jacob Astor?
A series of agreements between the U.S. government and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Southern Arapaho tribes.
What was the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
A Lemhi Shoshone woman crucial to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Who was Sacagawea?
The U.S., led by President Thomas Jefferson, bought a massive territory from France in 1803 for $15 million.
A social and educational organization for farmers.
What was the National Grange?
A flamboyant, controversial U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander known for his valor in the Civil War.
Who was George Armstrong Custer?
A U.S. law that broke up communally owned tribal lands into individual plots.
What was the Dawes General Allotment Act?
A famous American explorer, soldier, and politician.
Who was John C Fremont?
The first American overland expedition to the Pacific Coast, exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, to map the territory.
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
A political movement/party representing common people.
What was the Populist Party?
A revered Hunkpapa Lakota chief and spiritual leader.
Who was Sitting Bull?
aA U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by offering 160 acres of public land to adult citizens.
What was the Homestead Act?