Territories & Legislation
The land purchase made by Thomas Jefferson that doubled the size of the country overnight.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Discovered in California in the 1840s.
What is gold?
The invention that allowed people to travel west in a few weeks instead of months in a wagon.
What is trains?
Name of the piece of land Native Americans were relocated to.
What are reservations?
Houses settlers built on the Plains due to low amounts of lumber.
What is the sodhouse?
Gold was discovered in this territory.
What is California?
Many Black Americans moved west after this war for a chance of equality.
What is the Civil War?
Settlers couldn't afford log homes so they built what?
What is the sodhouse?
The cause of population decline for Native Americans during Westward Expansion. (NAME ONE)
What is warfare and/or disease?
One aspect of the climate of the Great Plains.
What is harsh winter, dry climate, treeless or tornadoes?
This act allowed settlers to get free land in the west if they could farm it for 5 years.
What the Homestead Act?
Names of the two explorers sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The invention that pumped water from the ground.
What is the wind-mill powered water pump?
Chief of the Nez Perce that tried to flee to Canada with his tribe.
Who is Chief Joseph?
The other name for soil.
What is sod?
Territory the United States gained control of in a treaty.
What is Oregon?
The railroad that linked the East and West Coasts of America.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The invention that was created to break through the tough sod of the Midwest.
What is the steel plow?
Battle that ended in the deaths of General Custer and his men against the Sioux.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The Great Plains went from the Mississippi River to what mountain range?
What is the Rocky Mountains?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this war in 1848.
What is the Mexican American War?
What crop became the cash crop of the Midwest due to its success in dry farming?
What is wheat?
The man who invented barbed wire.
Who is Joseph Glidden?
Process used by reformers to blend Native Americans into the general culture of the U.S.
What is assimilation?
What is land or loans?