Westward Expansion and Native Americans

The Oregon Trail was the main path to the west until...

• Spaceships started taking people west

• The Northwest Passage was found

• The transcontinental railroad was built

• Underground tunnels were dug to Oregon

What was the significance of the Oregon Trail?

• The Oregon Trail was used to travel eastward to open land that was less populated by settlers.

• The Oregon Trail was created to help Native Americans move to reservations.

• The Oregon Trail was used by settlers/pioneers who wanted to travel west for land/gold/religion.

• The Oregon Trail was used during the Revolutionary War to help the Americans defeat the British.

What were the major obstacles when traveling on the Oregon Trail?

• The Pacific Ocean, large deserts, rainforests

• Crossing rivers, bad weather, illnesses

• Friendly natives, too many forts, too much food

• The Great Wall of China, the Nile River, the Great Pyramids

Where did the U.S. government want the Plains Indians to move?

• Homestead

• Reservation

• Mexico

• Canada

What is a reservation?

• Land that the U.S. government set aside for the Native Americans.

• Land that the U.S. government set aside for the Exodusters.

• Land that the U.S. government set aside for the former Confederates.

• Land that the U.S. government set aside for immigrants.

Why did the Plains Indians not want to move to a reservation?

• The reservation land had too many buffalos.

• The Plains Indians were farmers and the reservation land was too far away.

• The Plains Indians were not farmers and the reservation land was small and poor.

• The reservation land was too large to settle.

What was the Homestead Act?

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

• U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the American West.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle Mexico.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the Eastern United States.

• African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the reservations.

What appealed to settlers to move to the Great Plains in the 1840's?

• Steel and Iron

• Oil and Water

• Diamonds and Rubies

• Land and Gold

Why did many settlers come to the Great Plains from Eastern United States?

• The water was cleaner in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

• The railroads were less expensive in the Great Plains than in the United States.

• The animals were more plentiful in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

• The farmland was less expensive in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.