Westward Expansion
After the Civil War, the federal government ______ westward expansion.
What is encouraged
Who were they?
Black Americans from the southern states
A large, flat area of grassland
What is a prairie?
The region just beyond settled area
What is frontier?
Treaties between the US government and the Natives didn't work out because
What is treaties were negotiated under duress?
Settlers headed for the __________
What is the Great Plains?
They moved to this state.
Kansas
The upper layer of soil that has grass growing on it
What is sod?
These people were already living on the frontier
What are Native Americans?
I am a famous Apache warrior
Who is Geronimo?
This Act gave free land to families
What is The Homestead Act?
This association helped with education and relief to help the former enslaved
What is The Freedman's Relief Association
These two resources were lacking on the prairie
What is water and wood?
This man wrote a paper about the frontier
Who is Frederick Johnson?
3 factors that led to the slaughter of the Buffalo
Answer will vary
The U.S. government gave land to companies to construct these
What is railroads?
The Great ________ was the widespread movement of Black citizens from the South to Kansas
What is Exodus
The type of farming created on the prairie
What is dry farming?
When is your test on Chapter 1
Today
This act moved Natives to reservations
What is the Dawes Act?
Name 3 factors that made people want to move West.
owning land, cowboys who represented freedom and adventure, the appeal of not being restrained by a legal system
Kansas was this type of state
What is free
This type of wire was used to make fences on the prairie
What is barb?
These were big in the frontier and were a factor in people coming west to see them
Who are cowboys?
These battles were key in the Natives fight against the U.S. government
What is The Battle of Little Bighorn and The Battle of Wounded Knee?