Settling The West

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Homestead Act encouraged Westward movement by offering free land to farmers.

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offered free land to those willing to farm it.

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Native Americans on the Great Plains relied on which resource for basic needs?

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Buffalo

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Colonel George Armstrong Custer is best known for his...

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disastrous loss in Battle of the Little Bighorn.

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Purpose of the Dawes Act:

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Turn Native Americans into farmers.

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Land set aside for Native Americans.

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reservation

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When mines ran out in Boom-towns, they often became ____________

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Ghost towns

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Revolutionized 19th-century goods transport:

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railroads

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Act that divided Indian reservations into family plots:

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Dawes Act

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Last major battle between U.S. Army and American Indians

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Wounded Knee

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Winning side of the Battle of the Little Bighorn?

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Sitting Bull