People
a indian woman, who helped lead the men on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Who is Sacagawea?
The ______ is a continous railroad network spanning a continent.
What is a transcontinental railroad?
A 2,000 mile trail overland route form Missouri to Oregon
What was the Oregon Trail?
Acknowledged tribal lands; tribes allowed U.S. roads/forts; U.S. promised protection and annual payments (annuities).
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
African Americans, primarily former slaves from the South, who migrated en masse to Kansas and other western states around 1879, seeking freedom, economic opportunity, and escape from post-Reconstruction racial violence and oppression
What was a exoduster?
leader of the Nez Perce tribe
Who is Chief Joseph?
A ____ is a community rapidly growing in econmic growth or population.
What is boomstown?
A historic 1900's trade route connecting Independence, Missouri, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
What was the Santa Fe Trail?
A series of agreements between the U.S. government and Plains tribes (Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Apache) to end conflict by relocating them to reservations in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), promising supplies, education, and protection, but ultimately failed due to broken promises, white encroachment, and bison extermination, leading to further wars and mistrust
What was the Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
a line or border separating two countries
What is a frontier?
one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who has the last name of Clark
Who is William Clark
The ____, or People's Party, was a late 1800s political party for farmers and laborers fighting big buisness and banks
What is the Populist Party?
A historic 19th-century cattle trail
What was the Chisholm Trail?
The Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 authorized the U.S. government to break up communally-held tribal lands into individual plots (allotments) for Native Americans, aiming to force assimilation by promoting farming and private property, making allottees U.S. citizens, and selling "surplus" reservation lands to non-natives, resulting in massive land loss and cultural disruption for Indigenous peoples
What was the Dawes General Allotment Act?
What was the Mormons?
pioneer delegate and former Virginia state delegate
Who is Daniel Boone?
The country is is experiencing ______, so everything is getting cheaper.
What is deflation?
Overland journey to the Pacific, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, map the territory, find a water route to the Pacific, document new species, and establish relations with Native American tribes, significantly advancing American westward expansion and Manifest Destiny
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
a landmark U.S. law that encouraged westward expansion by offering 160 acres of public land to settlers (citizens or aspiring citizens) who agreed to live on, farm, and improve the land for five years, paying a small filing fee, thereby providing land ownership opportunities and spurring economic growth but also displacing Native Americans
What was the Homestead Act?
The Pathfinder" for leading crucial U.S. expeditions to map the American West (Oregon Trail, Sierra Nevada, Great Basin) in the 1840s, sparking interest in westward expansion and Manifest Destiny.
leader of the Oglala Lakota Sioux
Who is Crazy Horse
A ____ is an old-fashioned term for a farmer who breaks up tough prairie sod to plant crops
What is a sodbusters?
The 1803 acquisition by the United States from France of approximately 828,000 square miles of territory west of the Mississippi River for $15 million
What was the Lousiana Purchase?
Established at least one land-grant college in every state, democratizing higher education for "sons of toil"
What was the Morrill Act?
African American soldiers, primarily in the all-Black 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments and the 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments
What is a buffalo soldier?