Westward Expansion

What invention led to the end of open range cattle ranching

• trains

• barbed wire

• electricity

• steel

50,000 African Americans who went west after the Civil War

• Abolitionists

• Sharecroppers

• Settlers

• Exodusters

Mexican cowboys to taught Americans how to be cowboys

• Vaqueros

• Ranchers

• Broncos

government agency created in 1862 to spread new idea and literature about farming

• Department of Agriculture

• Department of Treasury

• Populist Party

• Farmers Commission

Movement that believe unlimited coinage of silver that would create inflation in the country and allow farmers to charge more for their crops.

• Free Gold

  Movement

• Gold Standard Movement

• Free Silver Movement

• Free Currency Movement

government commission formed to end conflict with Native Americans by putting them on two large reservations

• Freedom Commission

• Indian Peace Commission

• Settlers Safety Commision

• Reservation Commission

plan to increase farm prices by building grain warehouses to withhold grain from market, thus driving up prices by causing shortages.

• Populist Plan

• Railroad Plan

• Farmers Plan

• Subtreasury Plan

George Armstrong Custer and the U. S. 7^th Calvary, were massacred at

• Little Elk Horn

• Little Big Horn

• Wounded Knee

• Devils Thumb

The Interstate Commerce Act was passed to regulate what industry

• Cattle

• Railroad

• Steel

• Highways

what was the impact of railroads and settlers on Native Americans in the West

• gave them more freedom

• spread new technology to Native Americans

• destroyed their way of life

• made them feel safer