Money & Manifestation: the U.S. Goes West
Roughly doubles the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Created the Wilderness Road.
Who is Daniel Boone?
Native American religious movement that predicted paradise.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Nickname for Texas.
What is "Cattle Country"?
Inventor of the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
Stretched from Missouri → New Mexico.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
A Native American woman from the Shoshone nation.
Who is Sacagawea?
African American troops in the Native American army.
Who are "buffalo soldiers"?
Communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened.
What are boomtowns?
A social and educational organization for farmers.
What is the National Grange?
Mountain men's yearly meeting.
What is a rendezvous?
Founded the Church of Latter-Day Saints.
Who is Joseph Smith?
U.S. general who fought against Chief Sitting Bull and Chief Crazy Horse.
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
Number of time zones established by the transcontinental railroad.
What are 4 time zones?
A decrease in money supply and overall lower prices.
What is deflation?
Year that California became a state.
What is 1850?
Chief who retaliated against U.S. settlers.
Who is Crazy Horse?
Full name of the act that tried to erase Native American traditions.
What is the Dawes General Allotment Act?
Huge deposit of gold & silver found in Nebraska.
What is the Comstock Lode?
African American migrants from the South.
Who are Exodusters?
Length of the Oregon Trail.
What is 2,000 miles?
Strongest supporter of silver coins over paper money.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Term that means "becoming like white Americans" when referring to the experiences of Native Americans during Western Expansion.
What is "assimilation"?
Mexican ranch hands whose techniques the cowboys adopted.
Who are vaqueros?
3 systems that the Populist Party called for the government to own.
What are the railroad, telephone and telegraph systems?