Westward
Passed by Lincoln during the Civil War
Homestead Act 1862
Grass, dirt, mud, sticks, anything to build a home
Sod houses
What tools are needed on farms out west?
Mechanical Reaper, Steel Plow, Barbed Wire
What was another name for the Sioux tribe?
Sitting bulls
Big Businesses are beginning to take control of the west
Miners, Farmers, Ranchers, Railroads
Who is the Homestead Act of 1862 available to
ALL people except those that rebelled against the US
Homes in the side of a hill
Dugouts
Farms that operated like factories, with huge machinery, managers, and workers who specialized in making a Cash Crop
Bonanza Farms
what does it mean to assimilate the natives
Forget Indian ways and become white people
writes in 1893 that moving westward made America Awesome "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
Frederick Jackson Turner
Which way does the union pacific railroad go
westward
what jobs are out south
Mining, Farming, Cattle
A mix between Spanish and English Cattle
Texas Longhorn
Colonel Custer and his men were slaughtered happened in what battle?
Battle of Little Big Horn
said that Frontier is Closed, no more land to grab
1890 Census Bureau
which way does the central pacific railroad go
eastward
What two types of homes are found out west
dugouts and sod houses
Young men that drove the cattle on cattle trails to the Railroads, 1/3 Mexican or Black
cowboys
slaughter 300 unarmed Indians, ends Indian wars
Battle of Wounded Knee 1890
Mass Migration in the U.S., Millions move out west
to leave the war stricken South behind
What do the union pacific railroad and central pacific railroad come together to make?
The transcontinental railroad
what is mining
Looking for Gold or Silver
600,000 cattle a year on trail
Chisholm Trail
what was the Dawes Act 1887
Assimilation of Native Americans
leads to corruption in Big Business as well as Government
all the following questions