Moving West
Wild West
Economic Opportunities
GOLD!!
People in the West
100
Why did people want to move West?
Economic opportunities
100
What is a rancher?
Someone who raises animals, such as cattle
100
What are natural resources?
Things found in nature. (gold, silver, lumbar, land)
100
What is mining?
Digging for rocks and minerals (gold in this case)
100
Who immigrated into America at this time?
Asian and European Immigrants
200
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that they had the God given right to expand the nation (move West).
200
What is a cowboy?
Someone who helps the rancher. Cowboys herd the cattle and take the herd where it can be sold.
200
What does economic opportunity mean?
The ability to make money
200
What is a boom town?
A very busy or populated town due to search for gold
200
What jobs were available to immigrants?
Railroads and farming
300
What was the purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?
To make traveling west easier (people, goods, etc)
300
Why would ranchers and cowboys have trouble with farmers?
They would run their cattle through the farmlands
300
List at least two new job opportunities for people in the West?
Farming
Ranching
Mining
Lumberjacks
Fur Trappers
Railroads
300
What is a ghost town?
When the gold runs out and the people all leave. An empty town:(
300
How did Westward expansion impact Native Americans?
Their land was taken from them by the White settlers to create railroads. Their buffalo was hunted almost to extinction. The finding of gold was valued more than the Native American's livelihood.
400
What was a negative and a positive to the Transcontinental Railroad?
Positives: people could move easier from East to West or materials could be shipped faster
Negatives: Impact on Native Americans or pollution or destruction of mountains from the tunnels
400
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Trail of Tears was when the United States government forced Native Americans to move from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
400
What is a homesteader?
People who moved West to start farming.
400
How does a boom town become a ghost town?
When there is no more gold and everyone leaves
400
What are reservations?
Where Native American people were forced to move from their traditional homeland.
500
List at least two physical obstacles
Rivers and Mountains
More specifically:
Appalachian Mountains
Great Plains
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountains
500
The Sioux tribe lived in South Dakota, it was their land where gold was found.
Why do you think finding gold caused war?
It was found on sacred Native land and they did not want their land to be destroyed.
500
What is the Homestead Act?
The government wanted this land to be settled. The Homestead Act was a law that granted land to settlers for only $18. The farmers would have to build their own home, but then could keep the land.
500
What is one example of a boom town? (hint: California)
San Francisco
500
Who is an Exoduster?
African Americans who left the South and moved to the West in hopes of better treatment.