Westward Expansion

An unsettled or barely settled area in America where mostly Native Americans lived

• frontier

• homestead

• vaquero

• exoduster

The area of America from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains. The land was mostly flat and grasslands.

• Great Plains

• frontier

• homestead

• Sitting Bull

A town the has a sudden burst of population growth due to the gold rush.

• homestead

• frontier

• boomtown

• Great Plains

Taking cattle by foot to the railroads for further transport

• long drive

• homestead

• buffalo soldier

• frontier

A cowboy that came from Mexico with the Spanish during the 1500s

• buffalo soldier

• vigilante

• vaquero

• Sitting Bull

A person who takes the law into his/her own hand

• vaquero

• vigilante

• Exoduster

• buffalo soldier

Land set aside by the U.S. Government for Native American tribes

• boomtown

• reservation

• frontier

• Great Plains

1864 - attack where U.S. troops killed more than 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Great Plains Disaster

Sioux chief who tried to fight back against American settlers who were intruding on his tribal lands

• Vaquero

• Sitting Bull

• Buffalo Soldier

• Boomtown

1876 - Sioux and Cheyenne forces wipe out an entire force of U.S. troops

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Battle of Gettysburg