Reasons to go West:
1. __
2. __
3. ___
Free Land in the West:
1. ___—law that gave settlers ___
2. ___—law that gave federal land to state governments __.
Religious Freedom
1. ___—founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (___)
2. __ moved believers to Salt Lake City, ___.
Whose Land is this Land?
1. Government opened up Indian land for white settlement
2. ____—_____ in which some 50,000 home seekers __
3. __—Black soldiers sent to keep Indians on their land (reservations)
Living in the West
1. Life difficult—weather, wild animals, Indian attacks, landscape (no trees)
2. __—homes built on the range ___
Who Went West and Why?
1. _____ Immigrants
Used to build the __
Railroad connected the East to the West
______.
Railroad helped cattle-ranching and mining
Towns sprang up along the railroad
2. Women
___ in the west
Tried to drive out _____
3. Freed Slaves
_____ for a new start
Majority of ____
Riches in the Earth
1. ____ was profitable in the West
2. ____—____ that sent thousands of prospectors to the West
*Boomtowns to Ghost towns
Death of a People’s way of Life
1. Indians ___ for food, clothing, weaponry, and money
2. __ while building the transcontinental railroad
3. Buffalo wiped out to force Indians on Reservations
“I Will Fight No More Forever”
1. Native Americans fought against westward expansion
2. ____—leader of the __
Forced to move to a Reservation in Idaho
Tried to move to Canada
Fought the U.S. Army
Captured and sent to Reservation in Oklahoma
More Indians resist Assimilation
1. ___
_____ after gold found on their land (Black Hills)
Indian Warriors led by Chiefs __
______ at Little Big Horn Creek
___
___
Sioux performing ____
U.S. Army sent in to arrest Indians
____, but many Indians escape
Army catches up with Indians and kills all 170-370 Sioux: men, women, and children
_____
Group of whites kills over 200 Indians
Reformers and the Indians
_____—writes about how the _____ by America in the book, “___”
_____—law that _____
Believed this would led to assimilation