Westward Expansion

to adopt the ways of another culture

• stockades

• totem

• clan

• assimilate

Cowboys were

• All white

• All hispanic

• All former slaves

• A mix of all races working long hours and poor pay

What closed the open range?

• Fireproof doors

• Barbed Wires

• The Sheriff

• Elite Military units

Device used to get water from underground

• Boll Weevil

• Supply and Demand

• Windmills

• Threshers

Technique used to adapt to dryer climates

• Dry Farming

• Texas Fever

• Commissioners

• Rustlers

Railroad that went across the Continent

• Barbed Wire

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Brands

• Cattle Drive

land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans

• service
• frontier
• reservations

The buffalo was sacred to the Native Americans: True or False

• True
• False

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

How many acres does a person receive with the homestead act?

• 200

• 150

• 160

• 140