Expansion and Conflict in the West

What is Manifest Destiny?

• An act that offered plots of land in the region to American citizens.

• People who made their exit from the south after reconstruction.

• Belief that Americans were intended to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

• A vein of ore.

What is the Homestead Act?

• An act that offered plots of land in the region to American citizens.

• Wooden runs that strain water.

• An act that helped people get out of their homes.

• The belief that Americans were intended to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

What part of America was wide open for settlement after the Civil War?

• North Carolina

• The Great Plains and the West

• Only Wisconsin

• Anything east of the Mississippi River

What is 'Dry Farming'?

• The ability to farm land with a lot of water

• A technique used for farmers to help cows give more milk

• A government issued document to help farmers get more dry land

• Technique used for farming when there was little rainfall

What was the MAIN reason Western Settlement happened?

• Overpopulation in the East after the Civil War led to people moving West

• For adventure into the Wild West

• Economic opportunities in farming, ranching and mining

• A government order for people to move West after the Civil War

What sort of work did many Africans Americans in the South do after the Civil War?

• Shipbuilding

• Sharecropping

• Mining

• Factory Work

Which group did the Populist Party Support?

• Cattle Ranchers

• Miners

• Farmers

• Business Owners

What propelled African Americans to move west by 1890?

• A belief in Manifest Destiny

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The free land granted by the Homestead Act

• Freedom from racial oppression

How did technological advancements in barbed wire fencing impact farmers and cowboys?

• Fencing helped farmers keep livestock in and predators out, but it eventually made a cowboy’s job obsolete.

• Because the dry climate made cultivating crops difficult, fencing had little impact on farmers and cowboys.

• Fencing helped farmers expand the size of their farms, requiring them to hire more cowboys to herd cattle.

• The high cost drove farmers into debt, but cowboys’ jobs became much easier.

Why was sharecropping a more viable option for African American farmers than tenant farming?

• Tenant farming required farmers to own equipment, while sharecropping did not.

• Tenant farming required financial resources that most African Americans did not have.

• Sharecropping offered more opportunities for economic independence than tenant farming did.

• Sharecropping provided more basic needs than tenant farming.