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Westward Expansion

11 vocab words/terms for Westward Expansion (S.S. unit 2)

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Dawes Act Passed by Congress in 1887 to encourage Native Americans to become farmers. Divided up their land & gave it to individual families.
Homestead Act Free land for people to farm. Half a million Americans had set up farms; many people didn’t have the $ to move west & start a farm.
Massacre at Wounded Knee About 300 Native Americans were killed by US troops while trying to surrender, when a shot accidentally rang out.
Tepee tent made by stretching buffalo skins on tall poles
Reservation a limited area set aside for Native Americans
Transcontinental Railroad railroad that stretches across the continent from coast to coast
Subsidy financial aid or land grant from the government. Congress gave subsidies to the railroad companies.
Cow Towns settlement that grew up at the end of a cattle trail.
Custer's Last Stand/ Battle of Little Big Horn Gen. Custer and all his men were killed in an attack against the Souix Indians. 1876
Ghost Dance a Native American dance thought to make a new world free of white men and filled with plenty.
Sitting Bull Lakota war chief and holy man. Leader in the Souix War of 1876. Killed by police officers when they were trying to arrest him for spreading the ghost dance.
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