Homestead Act
Free Land
The first people to live in the Great Plains were
Native Americans
_______ protected land and crops from cattle
barbed wire
The Transcontinental Railroad was meant to run where?
Across the USA
Most Natives were pushed on to ________
Reservations
Great Plains
The act that gave free land to settlers?
Homestead Act
This crop was grown in the great plains due to ability to grow in dry climates?
Wheat
How many companies worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.
2
Natives in the Great Plains main food source was
Bison
The first pioneers that went to the region was?
Beaver Trappers
How many acres did the Homestead act give?
160
What kind of house did the settlers live in and why
Sod Houses because there was no trees.
___________ worked on the Pacific Railroad company to help build dangerous bridges and tunnels.
What was found in the Nez Perce land leading to them being pushed on to a reservations?
Gold
Travel was difficult due to the lack of_______
Trains
The first people to settler was?
Gold Miners in the Gold Rush
The most important invention to farming in the Great Plains was?
Steel Plow
God's will for America to stretch all the way across the USA from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean
Manifest Destiny
Native American reservations to broken up to individual natives in this act
Dawes Act
One of the most common difficulties when traveling west was?
A. Natives
B. Wildlife
C. Crossing rivers
D. Disease
C. Crossing Rivers
What agricultural product was raised in the American southwest that was in high demand in the east?
Beef
What made travel faster and safer for settlers to reach land beyond the Mississippi?
Trains
The American _________ was almost lead to extinction due to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
Bison
_________ was the name of the soldiers used to fight the natives out west. Most were African Americans
Buffalo Soldiers