Westward Expansion

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent (North America)

• Reservation

• Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

Limited area of land set aside for Native Americans

• Cattle Kingdom

• Reservation

• Sitting Bull

Political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. This was the west when America first gained independence

• Frontier

• George Armstrong Custer

• Homestead Act

Railroad that stretches across a continent from coast to coast. East to West coast in America

• Reading Railroad

• Thomas the Train

• Transcontinental Railroad

A special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms

• Land Grab

• Cattle Kingdom

• Homestead Act

U.S. cavalry officer who distinguished himself in the Civil War but led his men to death in the Battle of the Little Bighorn

• George Armstrong Custer

• George Washington

• George Clinton

Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the 1800s who fought against settlers and the US army in the West

• Frontier

• Sitting Bull

• Manifest Destiny

What was not an affect of the railroads going out West?

• Population out West increased

• Plains Indians were forced into reservations

• Buffalo were killed which the Plains Indians relied heavily on for their culture

• The Plains Indians benefited in many different ways because of America's westward expansion

Who controlled the cattle (cows) that were in the frontier?

• US army

• cowboys

• Native Americans

What type of products were shipped from the West back to the East?

• Fabric

• Grain

• Trees