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Western Expansion

Western Expansion. Grade 8. Question 1. What were 4 ways the Plains Indians and White settlers came into conflict? Transcontinental Railroad Mining Gold Cattle Drives Homestead act. QUESTION 2. How did this animal help the Natives?. Question 3.

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Western Expansion

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  1. Western Expansion Grade 8

  2. Question 1 • What were 4 ways the Plains Indians and White settlers came into conflict? • Transcontinental Railroad • Mining Gold • Cattle Drives • Homestead act

  3. QUESTION 2 How did this animal help the Natives?

  4. Question 3 • When gold was found in California in 1849, what DID NOT happened next? • Swarms of people moved out west • Problems with Natives increased in occurrence. • Transcontinental Railroad helped bring people to the west. • Farmers asked for shorter work days.

  5. Question 4 • Who were prospectors? • Natives who hurt gold miners. • People who came out west looking for gold. • Farmers who lived out west.

  6. Question 5 • When too many people moved out west, people began becoming vigilantes. What does this term mean? • People who took the law into their own hands.

  7. Question 6 • The Transcontinental Railroad received many subsidies from the government. What is an example of a subsidy? • Money • Land • Resources

  8. Question 7 • What did the transcontinental railroad NOT do to the United States? • Connected the United States north to south. • Made continental travel extremely fast. • Quickly Increased population in the west • Brought thousands of immigrants to the West looking for work • Increased problems with the natives.

  9. Question 8 • What was the cause of 7 states being developed in the West, after the Transcontinental Railroad was built? • Lots of money. • Increase in technology. • Huge population increases.

  10. Question 9 • Circle the three groups of people that needed meat / food in the west? • Gold Miners • Transcontinental Railroad workers • Soldiers • Native Americans

  11. Question 10 • How were many cow hands similar to laborers of today? • Same ages. • Same work. • Many of them were immigrants.

  12. Question 11 • What is NOT a cause for cow towns to spring up? • People coming to mine gold. • Large demands for meat. • Merchants would sell tools and other items. • Natives attacking settlers.

  13. Question 12 • What did the homestead act guarantee? • 160 acres of land to anyone who would move out west. • What were 4 problems of living out west? • Grasshopper swarms, Native attacks, Little Rain, Dry weather, Strong winds.

  14. Question 13 • What is an example of buying in wholesale? • A farmer bought a rake. • Two farmers went to the store to buy a rake and a shovel to share. • 10 farmers put their money together and bought 10 rakes at a reduced price.

  15. Question 14 • What happened at Fort Laramie? • Gold Miners struck it rich. • USA soldiers were slaughtered by Natives • Native village was slaughtered by USA soldiers

  16. Question 15 • What are 3 examples of how White settlers finally destroy the Natives way of life? • Forced them to reservations. • Re-educated Native young. • Killed them off with diseases.

  17. Question 16 • What was final “nail in the coffin” for Native American life on the plains? • Destruction of the Buffalo. • Moving Natives to Reservations. • USA soldiers fighting them.

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