Vocabulary Terms
Famous Americans of the Southwest
Indigenous American History
Railroads
Revolt!
100

This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and established the border between the United States and Mexico

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
100

No, not the WWE star!  This famous American established the first permanent white settlement in Texas

Who was Stephen Austin?

100

This famous Comanche chief was of mixed heritage - his father was a Comanche leader, and his mother was his white captive 

Who was Quanah Parker?

100

These three marginalized groups were the backbone of the creation of the railroads (give me one group)

Who were Chinese immigrants, formerly enslaved African-Americans, and Irish-Americans?

100

This war, fought between Texas and Mexico, established Texas's independence in 1836

What is the Texas Revolution?

200

A 2,000-mile east-to-west route that provided a path for westward expansion between 1840 and 1860

What is the Oregon Trail?

200

Pass the ketchup! This group of unfortunate wagon trailers was stranded in the snowy Sierra Nevada Mountains on their trip out west

Who were the members of the Donner Party?

200

The massacre at Wounded Knee ended this long-standing Native American tradition, which the tribes hoped would bring about the return of their traditions and the removal of white settlers

What was the Ghost Dance?

200

The invention of railroads in the United States led to the creation of this, now used around the world

What are time zones?

200

This uprising in 1846 established California's independence from Mexico

What was the Bear Flag Revolt?

300

The significant event in which gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California, prompting a large migration of settlers to the west coast

What was the gold rush?

300

This famous U.S. Army general thought that he would crush the Native American warriors at Little Bighorn, but instead he lost his life and the lives of all of his troops

Who was General George Armstrong Custer?

300

These institutions were created to assimilate Native American children into white normative American culture

What were Indian boarding schools?

300

These were two major reasons that farmers opposed the expansion of the railroads (you must give me one reason)

What is the farmers claimed the government sold land to businesses rather than families, and they accused the railroad industry of setting high shipping prices?

300

Texians want us to remember this fort, mostly because every American there died at the hands of the Mexican Army in 1836

What is the Alamo?

400

This act, established in 1862, gave U.S. citizens access to 160 acres of public land in the Southwest territories in exchange for living on and improving the land

What is the Homestead Act?

400

This American president wanted to acquire Mexican territory - and he got his wish when the U.S. won the Mexican-American war in 1848

Who was President James K. Polk?

400

This site of a large Cheyenne and Arapaho murder in Colorado, now a national monument, is the only American monument that includes the word "massacre" in its title

What is Sand Creek?

400

This town in Chicago was built specifically to house railroad workers - they were not treated well

What was Pullman, Illinois?

400

American settlers from the Southern states supported the war with Mexico because of this reason

What is they wanted to add more slave states to the union?

500

An act established in 1887 whose purpose was to break up tribal lands into individual parcels to encourage Native Americans to farm on those lands

What was the Dawes Act?

500

These famous lawmen and their famous outlaw friend were involved in the most famous shootout of the American West

Who were Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, and Doc Holliday?

500

These are the four main reasons that the United States government pushed Native Americans off their western lands (give me two reasons)

What are farming, to set down railroad tracks, to gain access to minerals, and because they wanted it?

500

Trains made it possible for Americans to live out west for these two reasons (give me one reason) 

What is it brought crops and goods to the west?

500

This president of Mexico was captured during the battle of San Jacinto and forced to sign the Treaty of Velasco, which recognized Texas independence

Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?