Expansion Part 2 - 2.0 Retake

What was the Homestead Act?

• If you paid $10 and lived on 160 acres of land for 5 years, the land was yours

• A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

• A law that took almost 70% of land from Native Americans and forced them onto smaller reservations

• An area of land that Native American Tribes were forced to live

What was a Sod Home?

• A house made out of cut up squares of dirt and grass

• An area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains

• An animal native to the Great Plains

• A time period in which Americans moved onto the Great Plains

What was the weather like in the Great Plains?

• A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

• A law that took almost 70% of land from Native Americans and forced them onto smaller reservations

• Prone to blizzards and tornadoes, little rainfall

• If you paid $10 and lived on 160 acres of land for 5 years, the land was yours

What was the Dawes General Allotment Act?

• Law that took almost 70% of land from Native Americans and forced them onto smaller reservations

• A law that took almost 70% of land from Native Americans and forced them onto smaller reservations

• An animal native to the Great Plains

• A time period in which Americans moved onto the Great Plains

Why was the buffalo important to Native American tribes?

• A house made out of cut up squares of dirt and grass

• It was their main natural resource

• An area of land that Native American Tribes were forced to live

• A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

What were the reasons that the United States wanted Native American land?

• Natural resources like gold and more farmland

• A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

• A time period in which Americans moved onto the Great Plains

• An animal native to the Great Plains

What was the Timber Culture Act?

• A time period in which Americans moved onto the Great Plains

• A law that gave people 160 acres of land if they planted trees on 1/4 of it

• An area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains

• A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

What was the Ghost Dance?

• A house made out of cut up squares of dirt and grass

• Also known as bison, this animal native to the Great Plains

• An area of land that Native American Tribes were forced to live

• A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

What were railroads essential to in westward expansion?

• A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead

• Made it easier to travel to and live in the west

• A time period in which Americans moved onto the Great Plains

• An animal native to the Great Plains

What is the Great Plains?

• A house made out of cut up squares of dirt and grass

• An area between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains

• A flat treeless area that is in between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River

• An animal native to the Great Plains