Westward Expansion/Clash on the Prairies

Over hunting reduced the American Buffalo population from 30 million to __________ in a little over a decade.

• 85

• 8,500

• 85,000

Many farmers built their homes (soddies) from sod. What answer BEST describes sod? (Remember the video)

• branches and clay

• they look like teepees

• grass and mud

• curried buffalo hide

the battle that marked the defeat of General Custer and the U.S. Army

• Little Big Horn

• Sand Creek

• Wounded Knee

Which of the following best describes the landscape of the Great Plains? (trhink again of the Heartland Video with the farmer and his wife)

• relatively flat land and covered by prairie grasses

• relatively flat land and covered by dense forest

• mountainous land with many canyons

The Homestead Act was when the United States gave away ___________ to settlers.

• lumber to build houses

• 160 acres of land

• seeds to grow crops

• wagons to travel out west

What is Manifest Destiny?

• The belief that it was America's destiny to control and civilize all of North America from the Atlantic to Pacific

• The belief that their destiny was to manifest
• A religious term used to explain how to be saved

As Americans took over more and more land, what happened to Native Americans? (Dawes Act)

• They agreed to give up their land.

• They were given their choice of where to live.

• They were forced to live in reservations.

Over time, Native American tribes willingly or unwilling moved onto designated (typically smaller) tracts of land called...

• Preserves

• Quaratines

• Reservations

• Plantations

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

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds

• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation

• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad