Railroads & Miners
Early settlers in the West
What are pioneers?
Cattle raised in the west provided beef for people living in growing _________cities.
What is Eastern?
President Lincoln signed the ___________ in 1862. This law provided settlers with 160 acres of land for a small fee.
What is the Homestead Act?
____________directs water from a source to a place that needs it.
What is irrigation?
Native American home that was made of wood poles, bark and animal skins
What is a tepee?
A railroad that stretched across the country
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Cattle were typically driven to market guided by cowboys on dusty trails.
What is a cattle drive?
Settlers who had to build a home on their land within 6 months and had to live on the land for 5 years before it would be theirs.
What are Homesteaders?
Farmers conserved moisture in soil during dry weather with this method.
What is dry farming?
_Native Americans were forced off their homelands to live on ___________ which were often on poor land that couldn't be farmed.
What is a reservation?
In 1849________ attracted people to California who wanted to become rich.
What is the gold rush?
Who is Nat Love?
The federal government hoped that the settlers would turn the West into _________ farmland. (this is a descriptive word)
What is productive?
Settlers on the prairie were called this because they had to use this material to build their houses.
This Sioux chief lead his warriors to victory at Little Big Horn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
Many workers on both railroads were_________ immigrants. Their skills with gunpowder made blasting tunnels the the mountains possible.
Who are the Chinese?
Where did the two companies who made the transcontinental railroad meet up?
what is Promontory Point?
What is drought?
This person built a stronger plow made of steel in 1837?
Who is John Deere?
This Native American chief said, "I will fight no more forever." This speech was when he surrendered after a four month battle where many of his people were killed .
The idea that the US should keep expanding west, across the continent, to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Santa Fe railroad helped ranches expand further west. Soon ranchers were competing________for land in the Southwest.
what is fiercely?
The Homestead Act _____________to Americans and Immigrants alike.
What is appealed?
This invention helped keep animals from wandering and off.
What is Barbed wire?
Another Sioux leader who was killed in 1877 when soldiers claimed he was trying to escape. He had fought at Little Big Horn and spent the winter attacking and being chased during the Great Sioux War.
Who was Crazy Horse?