Crash Course #24: Westward Expansion

1. What three characteristics describe the significance of the American frontier

according to Frederick Jackson Turner?

2. Name 4 groups of people that made the western frontier their home.

3. How did the government contribute to westward expansion?

4. How did railroads influence life in the west?

5. What is the significance of the buffalo?

6. What is the Ghost Dance movement? Who participated in this movement?

7. What year were all Native Americans defeated?

8. What is the Dawes Act and what was the result of it?

9. How did America kill the Indian, save the man?

10. What was the role of women in the west?