us hist ch. 16
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- Homestead Act of 1862
- designed to encourage settlement in the West offer 160 acres of land to people who paid a $10 filing fee and agreed to live in the land for five years
- Morrill Land-Grant Act 1862
- transferred more than 140 million acres of federal land to the states
- Exodusters
- blacks who sought to escape violence and exploitation in the south by moving to the West made it to Kansas and beyond
- The development of the ______ played a major role in the destruction of the buffalo
- railroads many were shot from train windows for sport bad effect on native american groups
- 3 princial economic activies drew people to, and eventually transformed, the West:
- 1. mining 2. cattle ranching 3. farming
- The two most well-known gold and silver strikes were:
- 1. Pikes Peak in present-day Coloardo 1859 2. Comstock Lode in present-day Nevada
- Many of the would-be prospectors looking for gold wound up as:
- wage employees of these companies, as mining became big business
- While some mining centers quickly became ghost towns, some prospered into ____
- commerical centers
- The increase in the supply of precious metals led to:
- a politlcal crisis over the value of currency in the late 1890s
- _____ became widespread in the West after the great buffalo herds were decimated
- cattle ranching
- The era of the cowboy lasted only about __ years, from the mid 1860s to the mid 1880s. why?
- 20 1. droughts and sever blizzard 2. invention of barbed wire allowed ranchers and farmers to fence in their land, thus reducing the wide-open expanses that long cattle drives depended on
- In 1834, the US government designed _____ as one enormous reservation for the Indians.
- the entire Great Plains
- But as more settlers moved westward, the federal government:
- adopted a policy of assigning different Indian nations specific areas with definite boundaries. clashes occured with miners and settlers and indians.
- The Sand Creek Massacre 1864
- The Colorado militia massacred the Cheyenne nation in present-day Colorado
- Custer's Last Stand
- Sioux chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horses's troops defeated Lt. Col. Custer. So later than year, US forces got revenge for it and defeated the Sioux 1876
- Ghost Dance
- a dance by the Sioux that was based on the hopes that it would drive the whites away and return Indian land
- Wounded Knee 1890
- because of the Ghost Dance, 200 Siuox killed symbolized death of 19th century Plains Indians considered last Indian battle
- The Nez Perce
- peaceful relations between whites and indians until gold discovered on Nx Perce land 1860. Chief Joseph Indians prepared to leave peacefully but misunderstandings happended and they were attacked by US troops
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- wrote 'A Century of Dishonor' drew people's attention to the plight of the Indians
- Dawes Act 1887
- to break up tribal unites and gving individual Indian families a small plot of land and make them US citizens after 24 years of assimilation proved to be a falure
- Frederick Jackson Turner
- historian who made the 'Turner Thesis' = existence of unsettled frontier had profoudnly and positively shaped the cahracter of Americans. it encourged Americans to be innovative and indiviualistic
- transcontinental railway
- the railroad route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans completed in 1869