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Westward Expansion
Native Americans
Immigrants
Industrialization
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100
Name the THREE jobs people moved out west for.
Ranchers, Farmers, Miners
100
What was the Native Americans MOST important resource?
Buffalo
100
Name three EUROPEAN countries immigrants came from in the late 1800s.
Ireland, Italy, Germany, Sweden
100
Who is the wealthiest man in American history?
John D. Rockefeller
100
What color was George Washington's white horse?
WHITE
200
What is the area of land most farmers settled in called?
Great Plains
200
What is the Dawes Act?
Allowed government to survey Native lands and divide it into parts for individual Natives
200
Where did a majority of the immigrants working on the railroad come from?
China
200
What is it called when one person owns most or all of an industry?
Monopoly
200
What word were you NOT supposed to use in your essay?
Because
300
What are at least TWO problems people ran into moving west?
No resources, little water, Native Americans, poverty
300
What is important about Sand Creek?
Location of the massacre of 300 Natives, essentially ended the fighting.
300
What are push-pull factors?
Push= something in the place where you are Pull= something in the place you're going
300
What is the difference between a Robber Baron and a Captain of Industry?
Robber = bad Captain = good
300
What is the most stolen book in the world?
The Bible
400
What is the Homestead Act?
People were given 160 free acres if they promised to farm it for 5 years.
400
What is the name of the school in Pennsylvania that the Natives were sent to?
Carlisle School
400
What did the Exclusion Act do?
Stopped immigration from China
400
What industries did Rockefeller and Carnegie earn their money in?
Oil and Steel
400
How many?
Meatloaf
500
What is the term given to African Americans who left the South to move west, mostly to Kansas?
Exodusters
500
What does assimilated mean?
To strip down and rebuild. Natives had their ethnicity wiped away to learn to be more "white"
500
What were two laws (not including the Exclusion Act) passed against Chinese immigrants?
No testifying, no interracial marriage
500
Name THREE new inventions used out west NOT including railroads.
Barbed wire, dynamite, steel, telegraph, phones, light bulbs, cooler cabins on trains
500
Poor people have it, rich people don't. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
Nothing