Vocab
The U.S. would expand across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.
Who is George A. Custer?
spring up all over the West as new discoveries are made
What is boomtowns?
forced to live on reservations.
Native Americans
The main reason that people started rushing to the west.
What was the Gold Rush?
A train route across the United States that was finished in 1869
What is a Transcontinental Railroad?
Animals that were shipped hundreds of miles to get to the railroad where they would be
shipped to eastern markets for a huge profit.
What is the Cattle Drive?
This provided access to new markets for local goods.
Native Americans tribes that moved from place to place following their main source of food- the buffalo.
The potential for making huge sums of money by cattle ranching or Gold and Silver strikes.
What is why people moved west?
to adopt the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
What is Assimilation?
African American farmers who moved out west to the “promised land”
looking for a new life.
Who are Exodusters?
This offered free land plots of up to 160 acres to anyone willing to live on and farm the land for 5 years.
What is Homestead Act?
The Native Americans believed that by performing this religious ritual, the settlers would disappear and the buffalo would return.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
In 1876 American settlers traveled here to mine for gold.
What is the Black Hills?
A federal law intended to treat Native Americans as individuals and assimilate them into American culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
Natives were offered this which is a yearly supply of food, clothing, and other needed things that often failed to arrive.
What are Annuities?
This represented the end of armed Native American resistance to the U.S. government.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
What is declaring full-scale war against them, beginning the Indian Wars?
Newspapers portrayed this person as the victim of the massacre and the army stepped up its campaign against the Native Americans.
Who is General George Custer?
The series of conflicts in the western United States between Indians, American settlers, and the United States Army.
What were the Indian Wars?
A Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century.
Who is the Sitting Bull?
The US army sent only 250 soldiers to attack a group of Natives camped at Little Bighorn river.
What was Custer's Last Stand?
School for American Indians that uprooted students from their traditional cultures and
reeducated them in the practices of white society.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad are most closely associated with causing this.
What is the decline of the Great Plains Indians?