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1. Last Chapter This Chapter: Next Chapter Ch. 16/ 17 The Civil War and Reconstruction Ch. 19 The Industrial Age Ch. 18 Americans Move West 1850- 1890 Pgs 583- 605 Is about: After the Civil War, Americans moved west in greater numbers. In this chapter you will learn about how the great American West changed in the late 1800s. Settlers poured into the region and built mines, ranches, farms, and railroads- changing the west forever. Meanwhile, Native Americans on the western lands struggled to keep hold of their homeland. Essential Questions for the Chapter: • What kinds of economic opportunities existed in the West? • Why was there a need for a “Transcontinental Railroad” and what effects did it have on the United States? • What conflicts arose between Native Americans and the U.S. government over land in the West? • What challenges did farmers on the Great Plains face? What groups were formed as a result of these problems? Key Vocabulary: Question 2 Pony Express Transcontinental Railroad Pacific Railway Acts Central Pacific Union Pacific Question 1 Homestead Act Morrill Act Exodusters frontier Comstock Lode boomtowns established Cattle Kingdom cattle drive Chisholm Trail vaqueros Cowboys Miners, Ranchers immigrants Question 4 sodbusters dry farming tenant farmers overproduction deflation Free Silver Debate Populist Party Farmer’s Alliances National Grange breadbasket Question 3 Plains Indians Buffalo Treaties of Fort Laramie Reservations Crazy Horse Treaty of Medicine Lodge Colonel George Custer Sitting Bull Battle of Little Bighorn 5 days No Test this Chapter *Quiz : 10/11 Massacre at Wounded Knee Long Walk Sarah Winnemucca Dawes Act Geronimo