U.S. Territories
This treaty in 1846 settled the dispute over the Oregon Territory?
What is the Oregon Treaty?
This type of housing was commonly built on the Great Plains due to a lack of wood.
What are sod houses?
Name one reason why people moved away from the East to the West.
What is availability of land? What is hopes of getting rich? What is to escape racism? What is to seek religious freedom?
This act granted 160 acres of land to settlers willing to improve it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This Lakota leader was known for his resistance against U.S. troops.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This allowed Texas to join the United States in 1845.
What is the Texas Annexation?
This invention allowed settlers to effectively farm the tough soil of the Great Plains.
What is the steel plow?
Many settlers travelled west during the Gold Rush to get...
What is the hope of getting rich?
This policy involved the forced relocation of Native Americans east of the Mississippi river to reservations.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This Apache leader was known for staging raids against white settlers.
Who is Geronimo?
The U.S. gained a large amount of land after this conflict, leading to the Mexican Cession.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This invention made it possible for farmers to keep cattle from escaping.
What is barbed wire?
This was a major push factor for many Black Americans to migrate west.
What is escaping racism?
This legislation authorized the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This Nez Perce chief tried to lead his people to Canada to escape relocation?
Who is Chief Joseph?
This agreement in 1819 resulted in the U.S. acquiring Florida from Spain.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
This farming technique used drought-resistant crops and mulch.
What is dry farming?
This group migrated to Utah seeking religious freedom.
What are the Mormons?
This compromise addressed the status of slavery in new territories.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This tragic event involved the massacre of Lakota people in 1890?
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This purchase in 1853 involved the U.S. buying land from Mexico for $10 million.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The Transcontinental Railroad impact life in the West by...
What is it provided quick transportation for people and goods and provided jobs for many?
This is the name of the migration movement of former enslaved Black Americans seeking new opportunities.
What is the Exoduster movement?
This act aimed at breaking up tribal lands and promoting individual ownership.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This term means to integrate Native Americans into mainstream American culture by promoting individual land ownership and the adoption of Western customs through boarding schools.
What is assimilation?