Life and People on the Frontier
In what direction did U.S. population centers shift between 1800 and 1900?
What is westward?
What was the goal of the Dawes Act?
What is to break up tribal land and encourage farming?
What was the Chisholm Trail used for?
What is driving cattle from Texas to Kansas railheads?
What does Manifest Destiny mean?
What is the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand westward?
Overcrowding, economic struggles, and conflicts in the East pushed people to leave, while opportunities like free land and railroads pulled them west. What are these factors called?
What are push and pull factors?
Why did settlers move west during the 1800s?
What is to seek land, resources, and new opportunities?
How did U.S. treaties with tribes like the Sioux change over time?
What is they were often broken or reduced Native land?
How did railroads help farms and industries grow?
What is they connected them to distant markets?
In the painting American Progress, what does the woman represent(Columbia)?
What is Manifest Destiny or progress?
He was the founding father of the People’s Republic of China and led the country from 1949 until his death in 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
How did the settlers’ lifestyle shape the “individualistic frontier” identity?
What is by making people self-reliant and independent?
What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890?
What is over 200 Lakota were killed, ending Native armed resistance?
How did cattle ranching expand in Texas and the West?
What is by using trails and railroads to reach markets?
How did the destruction of buffalo affect Native Americans?
What is it destroyed their food, clothing, and way of life?
Mount Everest is part of this mountain range.
What are the Himalayas?
What role did territories play in becoming new states?
What is they had to gain enough population and apply for statehood?
What was the goal of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?
What is to restore Native lands and culture, and end the Dawes Act?
How did the Homestead Act and railroads together shape population centers?
What is they encouraged migration, towns, and farming communities?
How are Native Americans shown in the painting?
What is painted in the dark, being forced to move west?
This is the most spoken language in the world by native speakers.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
How did westward expansion impact Native American populations?
What is reduced their population and land?
What does the word “assimilation” mean in this context?
What is forcing Native Americans to adopt U.S. culture?
In what state did cattle ranching first expand on a large scale?
What is Texas?
Put these events in order: Dawes Act, Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn.
What is Little Bighorn (1876), Dawes Act (1887), Wounded Knee (1890)?
This mountain is Japan’s tallest and most famous peak.
What is Mount Fuji?