WorksheetsChapter 3 Vocabulary - Westward Expansion
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A treaty signed in Wyoming by the United States and northern Plains Indians in 1851
Treaty of Medicine Lodge
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Treaty of Slocomb
Treaty of the Cheyenne
A railroad system that crossed the continental United States: construction began in 1863
union pacific railroad
central pacific railroad
shady creek railroad
transcontinental railroad
an undeveloped area
frontier
plateau
plains
navajo
A law passed by congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers.
Homestead Act
Morrill Act
Comstock Law
National Grange
The battle between U.S. solders, led by George Armstrong Custer, and the Sioux warriors, led by Crazy horse and Sitting Bull, that resulted in the worst defeat for the U.S. Army in the West: also known as Custer's Last Stand.
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
Sandy Creek
the Battle of Little Bighorn
the Long Walk
A western community that grew quickly because of the mining boom and often disappeared when the boom ended.
gold mine
miners mill
ghost town
boomtown
African American soldiers who served in the cavalry during the wars for the west.
sodbusters
buffalo soldiers
cowboys
boomers
A long journey on which cowboys herded cattle to northern markets or better grazing lands.
long walks
bronco busting
rodeo
cattle drive
A trail that ran from San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas, established by Jesse Chisholm in the late 1860s for cattle drives.
Chisholm Trail
Oregon Trail
Trail of Tears
Edwards Trail
African Americans who settled western lands in the late 1800s.
buffalo soldiers
sodbusters
cowboys
exodusters
A decrease in money supply and overall lower prices.
inflation
depression
deflation
crash
A method of farming used by Plains farmers in the 1890s that shifted focus from water-dependent crops to more hardy crops.
waterless farming
hydroponic farming
dry farming
ghost farming
Nevada gold and silver mine discovered in Henry Comstock in 1859.
Comstock Lode
Comstock Boom
Comstock Discovery
Comstock G&S
A religious movement among Native Americans that spread across the Plains in the 1880s; they believed that it would bring back the buffalo and get rid of the white settlers.
Rain Dance
Medicine Dance
Massacre Dance
Ghost Dance
A 300-mile march made by Navajo captives to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, that led to the deaths of hundreds of Navajo.
Trail of Tears
New Mexico Walk
Long Walk
Navajo Journey
A political party formed in 1892 that supported free coinage of silver, work reforms, immigration restrictions, and government ownership of railroads and telegraph and telephone systems.
Republican Party
Populist Party
Democratic Party
Union Party
A system of messengers that carried mail on horseback between relay stations on a route 2,000 miles long in 1860 and 1861.
Donkey Dudes
Wagon Train
Pony Express
Horse Mail
Federal lands set aside for American Indians.
plots
common grounds
reservoirs
reservations
The U.S. Army’s killing of Approximately 150 Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota; ended U.S./Indian Wars on the Plains.
Massacre at Wounded Knee
the Battle of Little Bighorn
Sandy Creek Massacre
the Battle of Bull Run
An area of the Great Plains on which many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800s.
Oregon Territory
Cattle Kingdom
Ranch Land
New Mexico Land Grant
