Go West
This phrase described the belief that westward expansion was encouraged by God and history.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This government action helped Americans fulfill the goal of westward expansion by offering land.
What is the Homestead Act
The most significant environmental problem for farmers living on the Great Plains?
What is the lack of water
This 1848 discovery triggered massive westward migration.
What is the California Gold Rush?
What term is used to describe the early American Government policy for Native Americans?
What is Assimulation
This group experienced the most devastating consequences from westward expansion.
Who are the Native Americans
This 1882 law restricted immigration from China due to discrimination and hostility.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Women in particular experienced this social challenge due to isolation and distance from towns.
What is loneliness or depression?
This 1859 discovery led to a silver boom in Nevada.
What is the Comstock Lode?
Schools that were used to convert Native Americans into American Society?
What are Carlile Schools
This group faced discrimination similar to that of Native Americans during Western settlement.
Who were the Chinese?
The act that created land-grant colleges focused on agriculture and science.
What is the Morrill Act?
Homesteaders on the Plains became dependent on this industry that often took advantage of them.
What are Railroads
This describes cattle being driven from Texas to railroad towns.
What is the Long Drive?
The most famous Native American military victory that ultimately led to their defeat in the West
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Major infrastructure investment between the Government and Business led to the settlement of the West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Settlers had to live on their land for this number of years to gain ownership under the Homestead Act.
What is Five Years
The industry that was the motivation for the creation of the National Parks, like Yellowstone
What is the Tourism or Hotel Industry
This new technology ended the era of the open range.
What is barbed wire?
What religious movement, popular among Native Americans at the time, contributed to tensions leading up to the tragic deaths at Wounded Knee
What is the Ghost Dance
A term used by Americans to describe the lands west of the Missouri River?
What is the Great American Desert
Provided railroad companies with loans and land grants to fund the building of rail lines across the West.
What was the Pacific Railroad Act
The group given credit for civilizing often violent Wild West towns filled with cowboys, outlaws, miners, and cattlemen?
Who are Middle-Class Women
Due to high costs and difficulty, mining in the West was quickly taken over by this.
What are large mining companies
This Act broke up the reservations and parceled out the land to Native Americans, forcing them to become farmers
What was the Dawes Act