Module 3 Lessons 2/3 The Westward Expansion

Where U.S. army killed approximately 150 Sioux men, women, and children after they had surrendered.

A long journey on which cowboys herded cattle to markets, railroad lines or better grazing lands.

Discovered in the 1850s, hundreds of millions of dollars in gold and silver were harvested from this mine.

Areas of land the U.S. government forced Native Americans to live on.

An agreement between the U.S. and Plains Native Americans, which allowed settlers to travel trails and the army to build forts on Native American land.

This split up Native American reservation lands among individuals, and it promised failed to grant Native Americans U.S. citizenship.

An agreement between the U.S. and Southern Plains Native Americans, which forced many nations onto reservations.

A railroad that crosses the entire continent. It connected the eastern and western United States.

A Sioux leader who attacked the U.S. army for setting up forts along Sioux hunting ground, and later helped defeat George Custer at the Battle of Little Big HOrn.

Mexican cowhands, who American cowboys adopted their techniques and Clothing from.