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Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
Treatment of Indian Americans
War on the Plains
Miscellaneous
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How the Pacific Railway Act changed the West
What is making transportation more accessible for people and goods. Also providing more job opportunities. Made it easier to move West.
100
How the Homestead Act changed the West
What is giving land to settlers to take care of. People were drawn to this opportunity and wanted to move to the open land.
100
How Indian Americans were treated by settlers
What is poor. They were forced to leave their land. They were isolated and could no longer roam to hunt buffalo.
100
The name of the war that took place
What is Battle at Little Big Horn
100
The animal that the American Indians relied on
What is the buffalo
200
How the Pacific Railway affected Indian Americans
What is bringing settlers to the West, removing the Indians and placing them on reservations.
200
How the Homestead Act affected American Indians
What is displacing them onto reservations. Forced to move when settlers came to cultivate/take care of the land.
200
How Ranchers and Cowboys effected American Indians
What is killed the buffalo, which forced Indians to the Plains onto reservations
200
How settlers changed the West after the war
What is forced American Indians to move. The settlers were now able to take over this land.
200
The area of land Indians were promised
What is the Great Plains
300
The effect railroads had on American Indians
What is invading their homelands and destroying the buffalo.
300
Farmers were given public land for taking care of it
What is the Homestead Act
300
How miners effected American Indians
What is damaging and destroying the land and displacing American Indians.
300
How war affected American Indians
What is forced to move to the Great Plains. They were promised food, tools, and schools.
300
The name of the leader of the Nez Perce and the name of the horse
What is Chief Joseph and the Appaloosa
400
A railroad that is cross-continental running from Atlantic to Pacific
What is the transcontinental railroad
400
The positive change homesteaders had on the West
What is making the plains the most productive wheat-growing region in the world.
400
Some of the groups of people who effected American Indians
What is immigrants, white Americans, ex-soldiers, and former slaves
400
The Indian Removal Act
What is promised lands in the Great Plains in exchange for giving up their homelands in the East
400
Reason for the Indians growing weak on the Plains
What is forced to stay in one place and could no longer hunt.
500
The challenges Railroad builders faced
What is hard and dangerous labor, unsafe conditions, attacks from American Indians
500
Reasons why homesteaders moved West.
What is new starts, jobs (land to farm), and freedom
500
Describe the treatment of Indians according to the song, "Heart of the Appaloosa"
What is forced out of their land, tired of fighting, dependent on their horses, sad to see their people die from starvation.
500
Who the battle was between
What is General Custer and his troops against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians
500
A subsidy
What is money or other things of value, such as land, that a government contributes to an enterprise considered to benefit the public