Module 3: Westward Expansion

A Native American leader who became chief of the Sioux; resisted USA offers to buy reservations

Nevada gold and silver mine discovered in 1859

A Native American chief who was in the Battle of the Little Bighorn; was killed after surrender

a trail for cattle drives that ran from San Antonio, Texas to Kansas during the late 1860s

What did the Populist Party NOT support?

Plains farmers who worked hard to break up the region's tough sod

An activist for Native American rights & gave speeches on the problems of reservation systems

US army officer who was a Native American fighter & was killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn

take in information, ideas, or cultures, and understand fully

Populist politician; favored free silver coinage; defeated by McKinley in 1896 for president

federal land set aside for Native Americans

Accompanied and aided Lewis and Clark on their expedition

a treaty signed by the U.S. and northern Plain nations in 1851 giving protection to settlers

leader of the Mormon Church; moved the community to Utah; used what became the Mormon Trail

a law passed to promote settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers

men hired to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and western regions of the U.S.

split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship

What challenge did the westward journey NOT present for settlers?

A Native American chief; took a stand against USA when his people were removed to a reservation

How did the U.S. policy towards the Plains Indians change in the late 1850s?

a 2,000 mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from Missouri to the Oregon Territory

An undeveloped area

African American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army during the wars with the Native Americans

What effect did the transcontinental railroad, mining, and cattle ranching NOT have in the west