U.S Western Expansion

Homestead Act 

• Peace Treaty with the Native Americans 
• Allowed Railroads to be built in the west 
• 10$ fee for an individual to purchase land 

How did railroads impact Native Americans?

• They made them wealthy
• They altered their way of life and took their land
• They had minimal effect on them

Which of the following is not an effect of the Dawes Act.

• Native Americans forced to Americanize
• Native Americans became wealthy landowners
• Abolished Native American Tribes

This Westward trail brought missionaries and farmers to the Willamette Valley, and gold seekers to Sutter's Mill. 

• Mormon Trail 
• California Trail 
• Oregon Trail 

This act gave any citizen or intended citizen of the United States 160 acres of free land if they cultivated it and lived on it for 5 years. 

• Homestead Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Pacific Railway Act 

This act gave states federal lands to construct colleges and universities.

• Dawes Act 
• Compromise of 1850
• Morrill Act 

This act have federal lands to railroad companies to complete a transcontinental railroad connecting the East and West coast of the United States 

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 
• Pacific Railway Act 
• Homestead Act 

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

Series of conflicts between American Indian tribes and white settlers or the United States government, usually over land. 

• Indian Wars 
• Trail of Tears 
• Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Required Indian to live within clearly defined land zones where they were isolated from everybody else. 

• Bureau of Indian Affairs 
• Missouri Compromise 
• Reservations