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Westward Expansion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| frontier | An area of undeveloped land |
| Comstock Lode | The name given to an 1859 gold and silver discovery in western Nevada which lured thousands of California miners to Nevada producing more than $500 million worth of gold and silver. |
| Cattle Kingdom | The name given to the Great Plains a vast open range of public land during the years when they supported great herds of cattle. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | The railroad across the United States |
| Chisholm Trail | A popular route for cattle drives from San Antonio to Abilene |
| Pony Express | A mail delivery system in which messengers transported mail on horseback across the country in the 1860s |
| Cattle Drive | One of the most important and dangerous duties of cowboys herding cattle to the market or to the Northern Plains. |
| Standard Time | The system developed by railroad companies dividing the United States intro four time zones. |
| News of the Comstock Lode brought thousands to Nevada. | How did the discovery of precious metals affect Nevada's population? |
| from coast to coast | How would you define transcontinental? |
| Treaty of Fort Laramie | First major agreement signed with northern Plains nations. |
| Reservation | An area of federal land set aside for Native Americans. |
| Crazy Horse | The Sioux leader who violently protested reservations. |
| Treaty of Medicine Lodge | Name the document where the southern Plains Indians agreed to live on reservations. |
| Buffalo Soldiers | The nickname given by Indians agreed to live on reservations. |
| Sitting Bull | The Sioux leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn. |
| George Armstrong Custer | The army commander who lost to the Sioux |
| Massacre at Wounded Knee | The battle in which U.S. troops killed about 150 Sioux. |
| Long Walk | A 300-mile forced march of Navajo captives to a reservation. |
| Chief Joseph | The Nez Percents chief who fled to Canada before being forced to a reservation. |
| Geronimo | The Apache leader who continued to fight against the U.S. Army until 1886. |
| Ghost Dance | A religious movement predicting a paradise for Native Americans. |
| Sarah Winnemucca | The Paiute reformer against the government's treatment of Native Americans particularly the reservation system? She went around the country speaking on behalf of the Native Americans. |
| assimilate | Word means to give up traditional ways and adopt the ways of a different group. |
| Dawes Act | The act took almost 70% of reservations land to make it private for Native Americans instead of shared to lessen traditional influences. |
| access to more land | What did settlers want that Indians had? |
| Native Americans did not want to leave the lands they knew or give up their way of life. | Why did many Native Americans fight the move to reservations? |
| Gold was discovered on the reservation. | Why did the government want the Sioux to sell their reservation? |
| They fled across the border to Canada | How did Chief Joseph and the group he led resist relocating to a reservation? |
| Afraid the Ghost Dance movement would cause the Native Americans to rebel. | Why did officials worry about the spread of the Ghost Dance beliefs? |
| Homestead Act | The act in 1862 that gave government land to farmers. |
| Merrill Act | The act in 1862 that gave government owned land to the states with the understanding that the states would sell the land to finance colleges. |
| Exodusters | African Americans who left the South for Kansas in 1879 were called? |
| sodbusters | What was the nickname given to Great Plains farmers because breaking the soil was such hard work? |
| dry farming | What was the farming using hardy crops that need less water than others? |
| National Grange | A social and educational organization for farmers |
| Deflation | A decrease in money supply and overall lower prices |
| William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and ran against McKinley in the 1896 presidential election. |
| Populist Party | U.S. political party formed in 1892 representing mainly farmers |
| because breaking up sod on the Great Plains was hard work | How did sodbusters get their nickname? |
| windmill | barbed wire |
| to get political candidates in government who supported farmers goals and laws to regulate railroad rates | Why could banding together help farmers? |
| because Bryan did not win the election and the economy corrected itself | Why do you think the Populist movement dissolved after Bryan lost the presidential election to McKinley? |
| the last area area available to homesteading was opened and quickly claimed | What ended America's frontier? |
| Annie Bidwell | One of the founders of Chico; known for her work in social causes during this time |
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