Expansion
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny.
The forced walk 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 by easing the process of breaking up soil.
What is the steel plow?
African Americans, many of whom were formerly enslaved, who migrated from the South to states like Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado in the late 1870s and early 1880s
What are Exodusters.
Nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army due to the Ghost Dance.
What is Wounded Knee Massacre?
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 government agency that deals with issues between Natives (Indians) and settlers and carried out assimilation policies.
What is Bureau of Indian Affairs?
A series of efforts were made by the United States to conform Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture
What is Assimilation?
The major impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on U.S. economy.
What is economic growth?
A federal law that granted public land to states to fund the establishment of agricultural and mechanical colleges.
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862?
The annexed state that became a cattle ranching hub in the West .
What is Texas?
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?
These 3 land gains led to a much larger frontier to conquer. Name 2.
Louisiana Purchase, Annexation of Texas/Mexican American War, Oregon Territory Acquisition.
This type of farming, common in the West, involved planting crops in dry conditions and relying on irrigation?
What is dry farming?