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Where did the first people who moved to the west settle?
Great Plains
What is an economic impact of Westward Exspansion on Native Americans?
Native Americans were forced to abandon their traditions/language, dress like settlers, forced to turn to farming and not hunt and struggle to have enough food
What was a negitive impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Factors, built along the railroad tracks, and coal engines produced smoke and waste which polluted the air and water
What are some reasons that settlers went west?
Gold,God,Glory
What brought an end to the era of cowboys and cattle drives?
The Transcontinental Railroad
Be able to locate the ____________ and __________ on aa U.S. Map. *Bonus _______________.
Rocky Mountains & Great Plainss Bonus Missippi River
What was a postive impact of the Transconitional Railroad?
Western farmers were able to sell goods more easily to people in eastern cities
What enonomic motivators encouraged people to move out west?
Gold Rush, Transcontinental railroad, Homestead Act
The Golden Spike was hammered inyo the tracks to symbolize completion of the railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific in:
Promintory Point, Utah
What invention was created to send messages through electricity during Westward Exspansion?
Telegraph by Samuel Morse
(Morse Code)
What city is known as the "Gateway to the west"?
St. Louis
What rights did native americans have when it came to land ownership?
That Native American lands couldd be taken from them if settlers found the land to be desirable
The last conflict with the Native Americans during the American Indian Wars was:
The Battle of Wounded Knee
Which statment below gives the best inference about US government policy towards Native American living out west?
The US governemt policy towards Native Americans encouraged destruction of the Native American culture, tribal homelands, and ways of life
What was the name of the idea that it was America's god given right to expand our country from the Alantic Ocean to the Pacific Oceaan called?
Manifest Destiny
What do the Homestead Act and TTranscontinal Railroad have in common?
they increased the number of people going west
What types of technology transformed the Great Plains the American Breadbasket?
Steel plow, windmill, mechanical reapers
Which of the following was the result of Native American land conflicts?
Native Americans were forced onto reservations
What type of home would one have to live on in the Great Plains?
Sod house or soddie
What was the most famous method of getting to the west before the railroad?
Oregon Trail
What were the requirments of the Homestead Act?
Live on the land for 5 years
What is a nickname of the great Plains?
The Great American Desert
African Americans who went west to start a new life out west on the Great Plains were known as:
Exodusters
One of the only Native American victories where Crazy Horse became legend was:
Battle of Little Bighorn
(Custer's Last Stand)
How were the bision impacted by Westward Exspansion?
They were hunted to nearly extinction