Reasons for Heading West
What was the belief that expansion was for the good of the country and the right of the country regardless of who got hurt?
Manifest Destiny
Why were Native American pushed off their land?
The U.S. Government wanted their land.
Where were Native American children sent to be assimilated into European-white culture?
Boarding schools
What people groups helped build the Transcontinental Railroad?
Chinese and Irish immigrants
What invention ended the era of the cowboy?
Barbed wire
What Act by the U.S. Government gave land to settlers out west?
Homestead Act of 1862
Where were Native Americans sent to live during Westward Expansion?
Reservations
Name the event caused by an accidental gun shot that led to the massacre of hundreds of innocent Native Americans in South Dakota.
Wounded Knee
What type of houses were built by settlers of the Great Plains?
Sod Houses
What overland trails helped settlers journey west?
Oregon and Santa Fe
What inventions made it easier to travel out west?
Steamboat and steam locomotive
What battle was a major victory for Native Americans led by Sitting Bull?
Little Bighorn
Who led attacks against Mexican and U.S. soldiers?
Geronimo
What animal was relied upon by Native Americans which was almost hunted to extinction. Its hide was used for clothing and drive belts.
Buffalo
What weapon did cowboys carry to protect themselves and their cattle?
Colt Revolver
What people group moved westward in hopes independence, safety, and success. They became homesteaders, miners teachers, nurses, etc?
Former enslaved African Americans
How did Geronimo resist efforts by the U.S. Government to take his tribe's land?
He fought many battles
What act allowed the government to divide reservations into smaller 25 acre parcels.
The Dawes Act
What invention was able to cut through the dense sod of the prairie?
Steel plow
What major perils faced by settlers on the Great Plains?
Tornadoes, fires, and locusts
What discovery in California led millions of people to head out west to get rich?
Gold
Name the chief of the Nez Perce who tried but failed to escape with his people to Canada after being told by the U.S. government to move to a reservation?
Chief Joseph
What act allowed the government to pay the Native Americans to move?
The Indian Removal Act
What used the power of the wind to pump water from deep underground?
Windmills
How long did it take to travel from the east to west coast with the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Six days