Expansion
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny.
The forced relocation of thousands of Native Americans in the 1830s.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The railroad that connected the East Coast to the West in 1869
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Settlers who moved west to farm under the Homestead Act.
Who are homesteaders?
The precious metal discovered in Nevada, leading to mining booms.
What is silver?
The 1862 law that gave settlers land if they farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead act.
The policy to remove Native Americans from their lands.
What is Indian Removal?
The railroad company that built the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Union Pacific?
The rush to find gold and silver in the West during the 1800s.
What are gold rushes?
The invention that made farming in the West more efficient.
What is the steel plow?
The precious metal discovered in California in 1848, sparking a rush to the West.
What is gold.
The 1876 battle where Native American forces defeated U.S. troops?
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The company that completed the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Central Pacific?
The people who drove cattle across the West.
Who are cowboys?
The type of home built by settlers on the Great Plains.
What is a sod house?
The idea that Americans were meant to spread democracy and culture across the continent.
What is Manifest destiny
The land set aside for relocated Native Americans after the Indian Removal Act.
What is Indian Territory?
The major impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on U.S. economy.
What is economic growth?
This state became a cattle ranching hub after being annexed by the U.S. in 1845
What is Texas?
The practice of raising cattle on open land in the West.
What is open-range grazing?
The term for the massive migration of settlers to the West in the mid-1800s, especially after the discovery of gold.
What is the California gold rush
The law passed in 1887 that attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing their land into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
This immigrant group was instrumental in building the Central Pacific portion of the railroad.
Who are the Chinese immigrants?
This type of mining involved searching for precious metals in riverbeds, often using pans.
What is placer mining?
This type of farming, common in the West, involved planting crops in dry conditions and relying on irrigation?
What is dry farming?