Geography
The state that received a large rush of pioneers looking for gold.
What is California?
What was used before trains to move settlers across the country.
What is a Wagon?
The area that Native Americans were forced onto by the government to make way for white settlers.
What are reservations?
The name of the train path that was able to move people and supplies quickly from East to West.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The year that California became a state.
What is 1850?
An area stretching from New Mexico up to Canada, many settlers moved there or passed by it.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
What is Manifest Destiny?
The name of a massacre of Native Americans by White soldiers.
What is wounded knee?
The material that houses were made of, since there wasn't any wood.
What is sod?
Why it was easy to grow wheat in the Great Plains.
What is the ability to grow in heat/hard soil?
A region of land that is flat, used for cattle and wheat farming.
What are the Great Plains?
The law that gave adult settlers who were the head of a household free land, as long as they stayed there and farmed five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Three things that Native Americans use Buffalos for.
1. Food 2. Their clothing (leather and fur) 3. For fires (dung)
This prevented Cattle from escaping or being stolen.
What is barbed wire?
The year the Homestead Act was passed.
What is 1862?
The name of a popular trail for pioneers (named after a state)
What is the Oregon Trail?
Two dangers that Pioneers faced.
What are:
Lack of food
Lack of medical care
Severe Weather
Threats from Native Americans
Conflict with other Settlers
The act of ignoring/leaving your own culture to blend in with another one (many Native Americans had to fit in with American culture)
What is assimilation?
The type of cattle that could be raised in the Great Plains.
What is beef cattle?
The year the Transcontinental Railroad was complete.
What is the year 1869?
The country that California, along with other states, used to belong to.
What is Mexico?
The year in which most pioneers had already settled down (Westward Expansion was over)
What is 1890?
The name of the biggest Native American tribe who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who are the Sioux Indians?
The name and result of a new type of windmill.
What is water pumping windmills? They gave water for settlers and their animals to drink.
The name of the American general who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is General Custer?