Westward Expansion 1
Why did Louis and Clark go on an expedition?
To explore the new lands purchased by the United States.
The railroad company that employed the Irish and worked from West to East.
Union Pacific
Due to the construction of this, more manufactured goods were shipped West, more raw goods were shipped East, and there was faster transportation between regions.
Transcontinental railroad
The Railroad company that employed the Chinese and worked from East to West.
Central Pacific
The purchase of the Louisiana Territory did what to the United States?
Doubled the size of the U.S
1803
What were sodbusters?
A name for farmers busting the sod on the prairie.
Who did the United States buy the Louisiana Territory from and for how much?
France, 15 million
The trail was used for religious freedom.
Mormon Trail
Were not interested in the Manifest Destiny, were interested in trapping beaver for the "High Hat"
Mountain Men
Gave 160 acres to settlers in the west following the Civil War.
Homestead Act
This trail was mainly used for trade.
Santa Fe Trail
This provided an important food supply for a growing population in the east.
Cattle Kingdom
Describe how The U.S tried to "Americanize" Native American children.
Sending them to boarding schools, wearing American clothing, speaking English, working on farms, making them give up their customs.
This trail was used to move settlers to fertile land and opportunity.
Oregon Trail
The last major incident between native Americans and the U.S Army on the Great Plains.
Wounded Knee Massacre
Built the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap, a 300 mile stretch of road.
Daniel Boone
The political group's goal was the federal regulation of the railroad.
National Grange
Had a goal of backing paper currency with silver.
Free Silver Movement
Custer's Last Stand
The Battle at Big Horn
This political party's goal was government ownership of telegraphs, telephones and railroads.
The Populist Party
Whose book, A Century of Dishonor called for reform and fairer government policy towards Native American groups?
Helen Hunt Jackson
These four groups settled on the Great Plains during the 1800s.
Germans, Exodusters, Russians, Scandinavians
This was the idea that Americans should control all the land from "sea to shining sea".
Manifest Destiny
Whose book, Life Among the Paiutes described traditional Native American life.
Sarah Winnemucca