Westward Expansion CrashCourse

What was the American west know for?

• Scientists

• Baseball players

• Cowboys

• Astronauts

Who was occupying space taken up by settlers moving west?

• Freed Slaves

• Spaniards

• Quakers

• Native Americans

PICK TWO: How did railroads connect people out west to the east?

• Allowed them to move crops to market

• Train conductors would tell stories of people who lived out west to people in the east

• Brought settlers goods and keep in touch with modernity

• Railroads were continually broken by Native Americans and westward expansion never occured

Type question here including a (a)  

• buffalo
• elephant
• lion
• giraffe

Due to the Dawes Act, Native Americans lost __ out of the 136 million acres of land they had possessed

• 42

• 14

• 86

• 23

How did towns out west develop?

• They would grow near railroad lines

• They would grow in isolation

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