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Western expansion Chpt 4

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Central Pacific Railroad
An eastward railroad company that hired chines workers.
Manifest Destiny
The belief that one day America would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Dawes Act
Was a act to americanize Native Americans, make them farm, and take there children. Chang what they wore and there hair length, and tong.
Union Pacific Railroad
An westward railroad company that hired Irish and African American workers.
Boomtowns
A town that developed overnight by a mining site.
Fort Laramie Treaty
The first treaty that the native Americans promised too. Had to stay on land,
Transcontinental Railroad
The railroad that would connect the east to the west.
Reservation
Land set for a specific group.
Homestead Act
A law that gave up to 160 acres of free acres of land to a settler who paid a 10$ filling fee and agreed to live on the land for 5 years.West
Sodbusters
A planes farmer.
Exodusters
African American farmers.
Vaqueros
cowboys
Chief Sitting Bull
Fled the reservations as a leader.
Last time
George A. Custard
Died trying to go get the native
Chief Joseph
Lead the tribes to Canada, and was a peaceful man.
What attracted settlers West?
Land, Gold, Minerals/ resources, adventures, new opportunities, jobs.
What is a lasting effect of mining?
The population growth.
What was the Governments role in developing the railroads?
They gave the companies that were making the railroad land to sell or make the railroads on.
What two groups built the transcontinental railroad?
Central and Union Pacific Railroads
Where did the builders of the transcontinental originate from?
The Union Pacific Company- westward from Omaha
The Central Pacific Company- eastward from Sarcranment
What types of workers did the big railroad workers use?
The Union Pacific-Irish and African American
The Central Pacific-Chines
What economic/ social changes did the railroads bring?
They brought war and surrender to the native americans and more population in the west. It also brought more fast things and new inventions, and more things.
How were the Native Americans impacted by the development of the west?
The westward expansion affected the Native Americans by kicking them out of their home and putting them into a new reservation to live. Then they American white people would come take it back for gold was on the land. They Native American people then would be placed some were else intill they were moved again and they started to fight because the white were mistreating them and moving them all over. They also were misjudged and many were killed, after they surrendered they were place into a different reservation for 4 years, and then moved to AZ. There kids were place into some boarding schools and they were not happy many whites tried to Americanize them by having them farm and changing what they were, eat, live, do, and speak. The westward expansion for Native Americans in all was bad for them.
Before Whites
There were more naturer and the communities were more separated, less inventions and socialization.
After Whites
Less naturer and the communities are more together more socialization.
Sand Creek /Why
Cheyenne warriors attacked miners and soldiers.In response, about 1,200 Colorado militia led by Colonel John Chivington open fire on a peaceful Cheyenne village along Sand Creek.More than 150 Cheyenne men, women, and children were killed.They thought that this tribe was a the tribe that killed there own American people.
Little bighorn /Why
Sioux warriors fled the reservations under the leadership of Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
Colonel George A. Custer is sent to get the Sioux back to the reservations . Met several thousand Sioux and Cheyennes near the Little Bighorn River in Montana.In less than 2 hours, Custer and his men - 211 in all - were  wiped out . Shocking the nation!!!! Government steps up __Military___ action. (Battle is also know as "____Custard's Last Stand____"
***Last Major Native American ____Victory ___!!!
The colonel was sent to get the native Americans.
Wounded Knee/Why
· White settlers and the government began to fear that they were preparing for ___War____. The ___Army _____ was sent.The army rounded the Native Americans up and place them in a temporary camp at _wounded___ _Knee__ __Creek___, South Dakota. The next day, the Sioux were giving up their weapons, when someone ___Fired__ a shot, and many people were killed.
They americans mistaced the native americans.
How did the railroads impact the time zones?
They made it so that everyone had mostly the same night/day.
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