Legislation and Concepts
This law granted 160 acres of land to anyone who had NOT fought for the Confederacy and agreed to farm the land for at least 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This method of transportation extended across the country beginning in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are reservations?
He was the leader of the Nez Perce Tribe and the last to give up the fight against White settlers.
Who is Chief Joseph?
What is the Dawes Act?
This was invented to help keep cattle in and predators or thieves out.
What is barbed wire?
This term refers to adjusting to a new culture or custom.
What is assimilation?
He led the Lakota Sioux Tribe to victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This belief said that the United States had the divine right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Due to lack of lumber, houses in the Great Plains were often made out of this material.
What is sod?
This animal was essential to the success of Native Americans in the Great Plains. They were nearly wiped out by White settlers during the late 1800s.
What are Buffalo?
He was chief of the Apache tribe in the Southwest.
Who is Geronimo
This 1830 law forced Native Americans from the East to the Southern Great Plains.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This method of farming involves digging seeds deep into the ground to grow crops such as wheat.
What is Dry Farming?
This battle saw the defeat of the Union Army against the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
He was a former Union Army Colonel who was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is George Custer?
This law banned the immigration of people from China to the United States in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These items used wind to generate energy to pump water from the ground for various uses.
What are windmills?
This event saw the murder of 150 Native American men, women, and children.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
He was the President who signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 (Review)
Who is Andrew Jackson?