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The French offered to sell Louisiana for $15 million, and Jefferson agreed to the purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
an undeveloped area—had reached the Pacific Ocean
What is Frontier?
western fur traders and trappers
Who are Mountain men?
A long journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase
What is Lewis and Clark Expedition?
areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans
What are Reservations?
a leader of the Lakota Sioux, protested U.S. demands for the land
Sitting Bull
communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened. They disappeared just as quickly when the mine closed
What are Boomtowns?
20,000 southern African Americans made a mass exodus, or departure, from the South
What are Exodusters?
a new method of farming that shifted the focus away from water-dependent crops such as corn
What is Dry Farming?
a decrease in the money supply and overall lower prices
What is Deflation?
most southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations. However, many Indians did not want to give up their hunting Grounds
What is Treaty of Medicine Lodge?
giving up traditional ways and adopting Anglo-American gender and family roles, cultural and social practices, and language
What is Assimilate?
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsIn founded in 1830 by a young man named Joseph Smith
What are mormons?
a railroad that would cross the continent and connect the East to the West
What is transcontinental railroad?
long journeys, cowboys herded cattle to the market or to the northern Plains for grazing. These long drives usually lasted several months and covered hundreds of miles
What is Cattle drive?
A Shoshone from the Rocky Mountains. She knew several Native American languages and her knowledge of the geography of the region proved very useful to Lewis and Clark
Who is Sacagawea?
African American cavalry, who the Indians gave a nickname, a term of honor, inspired by their short, curly hair, that compared their fighting spirit to that of the buffalo
what is Buffalo Soldier?
In 1864 the army led Navajo captives on a brutal 300-mile march, the Navajo were forced to walk across the desert to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico. Along the way, countless Navajo died.
What is Long Walk?
became head of the Mormon Church. He chose what is now Utah as the group’s new home, and thousands of Mormons took the Mormon Trail to the area near the Great Salt Lake, where they prospered.
Who is Brigham Young?
one of the founders of Chico, California, used her influence to support a variety of moral and social causes such as women’s suffrage and temperance
Who is Annie Bidwell?
at a convention in St. Louis in February 1892, the Alliances formed a new national political party. It called for the government to own railroads and telephone and telegraph systems
What is Populist Party?
gave government-owned land to small farmers. Any adult who was a U.S. citizen or planned to become one could receive 160 acres of land
What is Homestead Act?
Army shot and killed about 150 Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. This was the last major military incident on the Great Plains
What is Massacre at Wounded Knee?
A trail which ran from San Antonio, Texas, to the cattle town of Abilene, Kansas, was one of the earliest and most popular routes for cattle drives. It was blazed, or marked, by a Texas cowboy in the late 1860s
What is Chisholm Trail?
granted more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states. The act required each state to sell this land and to use the money to build colleges to teach agriculture and engineering
What is Morrill Act?