Westward Expansion

4. - An immigration act that didn’t allow Chinese workers into the US and didn’t allow them to become citizens
7. - Mexican brothers who fought for the small farmers and ranchers in the New Mexico Territory
9. - Government program that gave 160 acres of free land to settlers if they worked the land for 5 years.
10. land that is set aside for Indigenous People by the United States government
14. - Greenwood, OK - where there was a well to do black communities with businesses
16. - places that native children were sent to assimilate into the American culture
17. - towns that appeared after gold/silver were found
18. - moved West to find gold and get rich
19. - Black Americans who moved to Kansas and became homesteaders

1. - the idea that settlers had the god given right to control all the land in the West
2. - Railroad that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
3. -massacre that happened because the army thought the Native's Ghost Dance was a war dance
5. - mainly chinese and irish immigrants that built transportation and lived in tent cities
6. - Government program that moved Indigenous people onto reservations to become farmers
8. The process of one group taking on the traits of another group
11. - moved West for new job and that was difficult and lived in cowtowns for part of the time
12. - settlers who acquired free land from the government
13. -military attacked a large native group that was gathering and was defeated
14. - Black Americans who joined the army and went west to help “keep the peace”
15. - Sioux Chief