The Great West

​Learning Target: 
 I can describe the changes that took place as Americans moved west from 1860-1900.

Critical Vocabulary:
Pacific Railway Act, Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Promontory Point , Morrill Land Grant College Act, Homestead Act, Exodusters,  Bonanza Farms, Oliver Hudson Kelley, National Grange, Farmers’ Alliance, Populists, "Granger Laws,”  Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific R.R. v. Illinois, Interstate Commerce, Interstate Commerce Commission, Comstock Lode, Long Drives, “Range Wars,” Concentration Policy, Indian Appropriations Act, Buffalo Soldiers, Sand Creek Massacre, Red River War, George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Battle of Little Bighorn, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee Massacre, Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”