Lesson: Transcontinental/Native Americans

highways

railroads

radio

electricity

maintaining free and unlimited coinage of silver

offering low-interest loans to businesses

granting land to railroad companies

providing price supports for farm products

The Western landscape should be preserved for free use by all the people

Legislation and government subsidies were created to develop a national market

The West mirrored European values and social patterns creating small isolated towns

The development of an expansive railroad system hindered the growth of the United States

decreased conflicts between Native American Indians and white settlers

increase public awareness of the need for conservation of natural resources

increased development of Western lands

decreased economic opportunities for easterners.

Dawes Act

Homestead Act

Exoduster

sodbuster

Manifest Destiny

"Nits Make Lice"

Travois

Migration

provide forty acres of land and a mule to formerly enslaved persons

provide free land to people who would create a home there

provide mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver

provide land to companies to build transcontinental railroads

building of the Erie Canal

northern migration of African Americans

decline of the Plains Indians

rise of organized labor

to stop racial discrimination

to encourage Native Americans to vote

to help them become productive citizens in society

to make them assimilate, so taking their land would be easier

Dakatoa Uprising

Sand Creek Massacre

Little Bighorn

Wounded Knee

Native Americans were forced off tribal lands and onto reservations set up by the federal government

Native Americans began to profit from employment and investment opportunities

The Transcontinental Railroad went south to avoid disturbing Native American hunting grounds

The location of railroad routes caused many Native Americans to migrate to big cities in the Midwest