Factors for Westward Expansion
This was the belief that America should expand it's territory from coast to coast in the 1800s:
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the name of the group of people who migrated west to California for the California Gold Rush in 1849:
The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California led to this major event of Westward Expansion:
What was the California Gold Rush of 1849?
This was the name of the region in the United States that the Plains Indians lived:
What are the Great Plains?
The Homestead Act was passed by the U.S. government thanks in part to which U.S. President?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was the group of newly freed slaves in the Southern states who migrated westward in search of farmland and opportunities:
Who were Exodusters?
These were the two major mountain ranges that people traveling on the Oregon Trail had to cross through to reach Oregon:
What were the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Rocky Mountains?
These two animals were considered crucial to the survival of the Plains Indians:
What are the horse and the buffalo?
This is the term used to describe when "a minority group adopts the customs, language, and culture of a dominant society, often blending in completely."
What is Assimilation?
This was the title of the famous painting created by John Gast that encouraged Americans to move westward in the belief of Manifest Destiny:
What was "American Progress?"
This was the name of the religious group who journeyed west to Salt Lake, Utah to escape religious persecution:
Who were the Mormons?
Identify THREE major challenges that laborers and engineers had to deal with when constructing the Transcontinental Railroad:
What are avalanches, dangerous explosives, in-climate weather, rough terrain, exhausting labor, etc?
Identify THREE parts of the Buffalo AND their uses by the Plains Indians:
What are:
Name THREE major events or reasons that forced Native Americans onto reservations in the 1800s:
What are the Dawes Act, the mass killing of buffalo, the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Ghost Dance Movement.
This was the name of the U.S. President that encouraged the belief of Manifest Destiny, supported the California Gold Rush, and wanted Americans to migrate westward.
Who was President James K. Polk?
Identify FOUR groups of people who made the journey westward during Westward Expansion:
Who were farmers, Exodusters, Mormons, Forty-Niners, Cowboys, Railway Workers?
Identify FOUR challenges that many farmers faced on the Great Plains when taking land from the U.S. government after the Homestead Act was passed:
What were droughts, tornadoes, bug swarms, thick sod, lack of trees, isolation, hostile Native Americans?
They were brought to the Americas by the Spanish in the 1400s.
Name the TWO LEADERS of each opposing side at the Battle of the Little Bighorn:
Who was General George Custer and Crazy Horse?
Identify THREE major reasons why the U.S. Government wanted Americans to migrate westward and fulfill the belief of Manifest Destiny:
What were more resources, more land for farming, more cities and towns, more trading from east to west, more industry, more power, etc.
The belief in Manifest Destiny originated in the United States after it won what major war?
What was the Mexican-American War?
These were the names of the two major railway companies that finally met up at Promontory Point Utah when the Transcontinental Railroad was completed:
What is the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad?
This is the Native American word for "buffalo:"
What is "tatanka?"
Tried to force assimilation of Native Americans.
Broke up reservations already given to Native Americans and gave that land to each family for farming.
Sent Native American children to boarding schools to teach them "American culture."