Western Expansion Late 1800s

This offered 160 acres of land to any citizen or intended citizen that would cultivate the land for 5 years.

• The Morrill Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Platt Amendment

The building of this opened up the American West to more rapid development in 1869. It connected two American coasts.

• Panama Canal

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Chisholm Trail

• Route 66

What impact did the railroads have on Native Americans?

• the railroads helped the Natives move east

• Native Americans got jobs on the railroads

• the railroads limited their land and decreased their food supply and took away precious resources

• the railroads increased the amount of land the Natives had

How did the development of the railroad impact the buffalo population?

• the amount of buffalo did not change

• the amount of buffalo decreased

• the amount of buffalo increased

• buffalo migrated east

Where were Native Americans forced to relocate?

• east

• Towns

• Reservations

• Camps

Which of the following statements describes how Westward Movement affected Native Americans?

• Many Native Americans were pushed off their homelands and forced onto reservations.
• They were paid for their land so that they could buy land elsewhere.
• Americans gained a better understanding of Native American culture and began treating them with respect.
• American pioneers offered to share the land with the Native Americans.

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
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

Adopting the customs and practices of the dominant culture.

• Nativism
• Ethnic Enclaves
• Assimilation

What was a negative effect of the railroad boom?

• People and goods could get places faster.

• Many Texas businesses grew.

• Railroad tracks were laid across American Indian lands and railroad companies slaughtered buffalo.

Linked east and west; created markets!; created economic boom

• barbed wire

• transcontinental railroad

• telegraph

• steamboats