Social Studies Weekly Week 2 Vocabulary

Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act.

• Gold

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Black Kettle

• Homesteaders

Mail service that ran from April 1860 to October 1861

• Gold

• Pony Express

• Westward Expansion

• Louisiana Purchase

Leader of the Cheyenne after 1854 who led efforts to resist American settlements from Kansas to Colorado. he was a peacemaker who survived the Sand Creek Massacre but was killed by an army attack led by George Custer.

• Black Kettle

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Homesteaders

• Gold

(1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

• Homesteaders

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Black Kettle

• Indian Removal Act

A territory in the western United States that was purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million

• Louisiana Purchase

• Westward Expansion

• Gold

• Pony Express

African American soldiers who fought during the Civil War and after, keeping peace between American Indians and settlers, led by Benjamin Grierson

• Indian Removal Act

• Black Kettle

• Homesteaders

• Buffalo Soldiers

Migration and settlement from the East to the West

• Westward Expansion

• Gold

• Louisiana Purchase

• Pony Express

Precious metal discovered in California

• Homesteaders

• Pony Express

• Gold

• Black Kettle