Westward Expansion Review

Any adult who was a U.S. citizen or planned to become one could receive 160 acres of land. In exchange, settlers promised to live on the land for five years.

• Morrill Act

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Westward Act

What was the purpose of the Dawes Act?

• To save the buffalos

• To give Native Americans free land

• To force Native Americans to work for the railroad

• To encourage assimilation of Native Americans

What group did not believe in individual land ownership?

• Native Americans

• White Settlers

• Ms. Brea's family

• Immigrants

Belief that the United States should expand from the East coast to the West coast

• Expansionism

• Westward Expansion

• Manifest Destiny

• Assimilation

What was a Cattle Drive?

• When cows drive cars

• Cowboys moved cattle to northern markets

• Cowboys moved cattle out of the United States

• Groups of cattle that migrate to the west

What two immigrant groups worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Chinese and Japanese

• Italian and Irish

• German and Polish Immigrants

• Irish and Chinese

Why were immigrants used to build the railroads?

• Many Americans did not support the railroad

• They were forced to build it

• Immigrants worked for less money

• Many immigrants had built railroads in the past

What allowed for these things to occur?

Faster movement of supplies

Cheaper to transport goods

Population in the West increased

• The Pony Express

• An ocean route through the Gulf of Mexico

• The airplane

• Transcontinental Railraod

Campaigned for political candidates who supported farmers’ goals. The organization also called for laws that regulated rates charged by railroads

• The Grange Movement

• The Open range movement

• The Jennings Movement

• The Farmer Movement

Name given to Plains farmers who worked hard to break up the region's tough sod

• Exodusters

• Dirtdeckers

• Diggers

• Sodbusters