Settling the Frontier

Allowed the federal government to put aside land for a national railroad to ship people & goods west.

• Pacific Railway Act

• Homestead Act

• Continental Railroad Act

• Dawes Act

Precious metals, the transcontinental railroad, cheap land

• settlers of the Great Plains

• federal policies for western settlement

• factors influencing western settlement

• attempts at Americanization

Promised settlers 160 acres of land for $1.65 an acre if they could improve the land.

• Pacific Railway Act

• Continental Railroad Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

Battle that resulted in the U.S. Army's slaughter of 200 Sioux men, women, and children.

• Wounded Knee

• Little Big Horn

• Custer's Last Stand

• Sitting Bull's Last Stand

Happened to many mining boomtowns

• Little Bighorn

• Custer's Last Stand

• Wounded Knee

• Ghost Town

Gave Indian men several acres of land to harvest but was often infertile land.

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Great Plains Act

• Great Basin Act

Land was overgrazed, conflict with other settlers & Indians, and barbed wire started the "closed range"

• frontier farming adaptations

• challenges faced by cowboys & ranchers

• federal policies encouraging western settlement

• attempts at Americanization

Teaching English, Christianity, & farming on reservation systems

• attempts at Americanization

• challenges faced by cowboys and ranchers

• federal policies encouraging western settlement

• factors influencing western settlement

Battle where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated the Americans under General Custer.

• Wounded Knee

• Little Big Horn

• Sitting Bull's Last Stand

• Ghost Town

Building sod houses from the earth and using new machinery

• attempts at Americanization

• factors influencing western settlement

• frontier farming adaptations

• federal policies encouraging western settlement