New Frontiers notesheet

Question 1

list the 4 factors that lead people to settle in the west

Answer 1

Belief in Manifest Destiny
Ag. wealth from fertile lands and cattle ranching
Abundance of resources(forests)/minerals
Transcontinential railroad-linked east to west, option to move west rather than by foot or wagon

Question 2

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 2

made available 160acres of land to any settler willing to farm it, settlers had to live on the land for 5 years

Question 3

Open range

Answer 3

where cattle ranches could graze their herds free of change and without boundaries

Question 4

name 2 things about the Cattle ranch

Answer 4

Herds mved along trails and railroad lines

cowboys were former confederate army soliders, hispanic and many were african american

Question 5

Name 2 things about Abundance resourses

Answer 5

Minerals: gold, silver, copper

Led to growth of boomtowns which later lead to ghost towns

Question 6

4 things about the Trnsontineal Railroad

Answer 6

Conected East to west
2 railway line were union pacific and central pacific
workers included union pacific and central pacific

workers included chinese laborers, and irish immigrants

completed on may 10,1869

Question 7

2 things about the groups affected by expansionism

Answer 7

native americans and mexican americans did not benefit from the settlement of the west

Affected native americans by expansion, forced to rezs to assimilate to “white man culture” failed but resulted in loss f culture and decline in population

Question 8

Dawes severalty act of 1887

Answer 8

decreed parcels of land be given to indivisuals. Native Americans not skilled farmers thus they dont wont parcels broken up. Unallocated land would be sold w/ proceeds put in trust for native mericans-plan failed