Westward Expansion Vocab

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Invention that closed off open range, making cattle drives dangerous and contributing to the Open Range War.

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Barbed Wire

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Invention connecting east and west, causing economic boom.

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Dawes Act & boarding schools forced Native Americans to

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Assimilate

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Indian policy that divided tribal land into individual plots.

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The Dawes Act

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Federal government encouraged westward settlement by passing the:

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Homestead Act

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Movement of cattle from Texas to the East

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By a Cattle Drive

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African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the Civil War.

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The Exodusters

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Land claimants under the Homestead Act?

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Homesteaders

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Belief in U.S. expansion to the Pacific Ocean

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Manifest Destiny

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Land set aside for Native Americans:

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reservation