U.S.+History+A


 * U. S. HISTORY A**

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UNIT 1: A Nation Growing Up

The Western Frontier is Settled 1865-1890

Your notes should contain information about each point below. If you do a good job taking notes, the mastery test should be very easy.

Be sure to use headings when the subject changes.

Circled or highlight important people, events, new lawsd, dates; etc.

Read the detailed Overview, and you will find everything you need.

__**Everything**__ listed below is important and will be tested over at least one time.

For the underlined terms in dark print you need some details in your notes about it. **__Just having the term is not enough__**.


 * __**Northwest Ordinance 1787**__ - territory affected - importance of

__**Thomas Jefferson**__
 * __**Louisiana Purchase 1803**__
 * __Louis and Clark 1804-1805__**


 * __**Manifest Destiny**__ - its meaning


 * Two reasons why Americans were hesitant to move into the Great Plains


 * Several things that caused Americans to move into the __**-**__ Great Plains


 * __**Conestoga wagons/prairie schooners**__


 * Law and Order in the West


 * __**outlaws**__


 * **__vigilantes__**


 * __**territories**__ and__**rules for statehood**__


 * __**Gold Rush, Sutter's Mill, Fourty-ninersl, lode**__ - know these


 * __**Treaties**__ with the Native Americans - why?


 * Disgraceful, unfair treatment of Native Americans - why?


 * __**Worchester vs. Georgia 1832**__


 * **__Trail of Tears 1838-1839__** Why an outrageous disgrace


 * __**Indian Appropriations Act of 1851**__ what was it for?


 * __**Sand Creek Massacre**__ 1868


 * 1868 __**Washita River**__


 * __**Ghost Dance**__ - its purpose


 * The role of the __**American Bison**__


 * __**Dawes Severalty Act**__ - ( __**take good notes on this. It is on the semester test**__ ) what it was meant to do, what it's effect really was, why it failed to help Native Americans


 * The Growth of the Railroad**
 * **Effects of railroad growth**


 * How Congress helped the railroads


 * __ATTENTION!__ There is a mistake in the Overview. The Union Pacific Railroad started in Sacramento, California and built eastward until it met the Central Pacific Railroad at Promentory Point, Nevada. The Central Pacific Railroad started at Omaha, Nebraska and build westward until it met the Union Pacific.


 * __**Pony Express**__ - what it was - why it ended


 * Two things that encouraged farming on the Great Plains.

__**WESTERN FARMERS AND RAILROAD EXPANSION**__


 * Differences between farming on the Great Plains and farming in the Northeast


 * Interdependence between the farmers and the railroads

__**Timber Act of 1873**__ importance of each of these for western farming __**Desert Land Act 1877**__
 * __**1862 Homestead Act**__
 * Importance of __**Abilene, Kansas**__


 * __**Chisholm Trail** - from where to where and for what purpose__


 * __**western farms**__ - main crop? role of **__windmills__** - **__Overproduction__**


 * **__Sod homes__**


 * reason for **__barbed wire__**


 * __**drought**__ and **__other natural disasters__** that struck western farmers


 * __**The Granger Movement**__ - why it was formed


 * __**Munn vs. Illinois**__ - importance of


 * __**Granger laws and Granger cases**__


 * __**Interstate Commerce Act of 1887**__ - why?


 * __**POPULISM AND POPULIST** PARTY__ why created and the effects of


 * The end of the frontier and the importance of __**Frederick Jackson Turner**__