Westward Expansion Vocabulary

The grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.

• Great Plains

• Chrisholm Trail

• Bonanza Farm

• Long Drive

The Sioux agreed to live on a reservation along the Missouri River, it only provided temporary halt to warfare.

• The Treaty of Fort Laramie

• Dawes Act

• Morrill Act

• Farmers' Alliance

Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux

• George A. Custer

• Sitting Bull

• Long Drive

• Exoduster

A colonel who led his troops to the battle of Little Big Horn where he and his troops died.

• Sitting Bull

• George A. Custer

• Oliver Hudson Kelley

A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture.

• Grange

• Assimilation

• Dawes Act

Broke up the reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native Americans to farm—160 acres to each head of household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult.

• Farmers' Alliance

• Dawes Act

• Morrill Acts

Brought the Indian wars to an end.

• The Battle of Wounded Knee

• The Battle of Little Big Horn

• Morrill Acts

In 1859 prospectors found silver in the Carson River valley of present-day Nevada. Thousands of miners rushed to this mine.

• Comstock Lode

• Gold Standard

• Chrisholm Trail

Which is NOT a type of mining?

• Hydraulic Mining

• Placer Mining

• Hard-rock Mining

• Soft-rock mining

Sturdy, short-tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern Spain. Unlike other breeds, this animal was hardy, could travel long distances without much water, and could live on grass alone.

• Horse

• Longhorn

• Cow