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westward expansion

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impact of transcontinental railroad
caused west to be populated but it pushed indians out
Sand Creek
indians in colorado territory with militia surrounding them and shot broke out
Morrill Act
gave land to states to sell for land grant universities
transcontinental railroad
a railroad that connected the east and the west
William T Sherman
in charge of the western armies-went after indians-"THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEAD INDIAN"
difficulties building the railroad
sierra nevada mountains, extreme temperatures, blizzards, tornadoes, long way, hanging off mountains for explosives, indians, mississippi river
Homestead Act
gave government-owned land to small farmers for a little price but they had to farm the land for at least 5 years
telegraph
a communication system that sent messages faster than the pony express-direct messages
Buffalo Bill Cody
shot buffalo to feed railway workers
dangers of mining
little oxygen, dust, platform elevators, trapped under mines, leaky springs
impact of the railroad
new way of transportation=new town=bigger populations
railroad workers
mostly irish, civil war veterans, and chinese
Pacific Railway Acts
gave railroad loans and land grants which could be sold for construction costs
Leland Stanford
railroad's part-owner, got chinese workers to work on the railroad, gave money for Sanford University and named it after himself
Pony Express
mail delivered by horse
Manifest Destiny
religious view of moving west; "god is telling us to go here
Comstock Lode
miners found mostly silver (and some gold) in western nevada. the miners were from europe, central and south america, and australia
Sitting Bull
sioux leader-ONCE HE DIED ALL OF THE INDIANS LEFT THE RESERVATIONS
Wounded Knee
massacre between sioux and americans because the ghost dance made the americans nervous that the indians would take over
miners
dangerous jobs-CHINESE, MEXICAN, MEXICAN-AMERICAN, EUROPEAN, AND SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICAN
importance of the buffalo
gave indians food skin and bones as tools
Dawes General Allotment Act
reservations didn't work, so we divided them into yards and tried to make indians like us-we sent indian kids to indian schools made them like us-when they were done with indian school, we sent them back to their tribes and nobody knew them so they weren't wanted anywhere
reservations
areas of former indian homeland in which the u.s. government restricted to them-hot, dry, hard to grow crops in, hard to hunt buffalo
Treaty of Medicine Lodge
required indians to live on reservations
Treaty of Fort Laramie
the u.s. government promised to pay for any indian land damaged by us walking through it-RECOGNIZED THAT LAND BELONGED TO INDIANS
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