Social Studies

Manifest Destiny

God given right to expand westward

Transcontinental railroad

A long track that went across the US to transport resources and people

Homestead Act

Government gave land to people who improved a land for 5 years

Boomtown

Towns that attracted lots of miners because of the ores and resources

Ghosttown

Town that had been fully used to take most of its resources, and most people left because of that

Assimilation

When Native Americans were split apart to break cultural Tribal traditions

The Dawes act

Broke up Native Americans into plots of land to assimilate them.

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School

The first boarding school for Native Americans that assimilated them

Reservation

Land set aside from the US government for Native American occupation

Treatment of Chinese while building railroad

Their working conditions were poor and dangerous

The golden spike

Where the two ends of the railroad met in Promontory point, Utah