WHO.... WHAT......
Henry Comstock California Gold Rush Battle of Little Bighorn
Judge Parker Comstock Lode Wounded Knee
Crazy Horse Homestead Act Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sitting Bull Dawes Act Morgan Dollar
Leland Stanford Chisholm Trail Hydraulic Mining
Chief Joseph Free Range Transcontinental Railroad
William Cody Chinese Exclusion Act
7th Calvary Railroad Act of 1862
George A. Custer Sand Creek Massacre
Homesteader Ghost Dance
Making a Connection:
1. Settlers from all over the globe came to the American West seeking their fortunes. Quite often, they found opportunity
not equally available to all. In competition for work and land, why did Anglo American settlers usually have the upper
hand? How did legal developments contribute to this circumstances?
2. Westward migration brought settlers into conflict with Native Americans How did the United States government attempt
to subdue Indians in the West? How did Indians resist their actions? Please include cultural and military features of the
conflict.
Henry Comstock California Gold Rush Battle of Little Bighorn
Judge Parker Comstock Lode Wounded Knee
Crazy Horse Homestead Act Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sitting Bull Dawes Act Morgan Dollar
Leland Stanford Chisholm Trail Hydraulic Mining
Chief Joseph Free Range Transcontinental Railroad
William Cody Chinese Exclusion Act
7th Calvary Railroad Act of 1862
George A. Custer Sand Creek Massacre
Homesteader Ghost Dance
Making a Connection:
1. Settlers from all over the globe came to the American West seeking their fortunes. Quite often, they found opportunity
not equally available to all. In competition for work and land, why did Anglo American settlers usually have the upper
hand? How did legal developments contribute to this circumstances?
2. Westward migration brought settlers into conflict with Native Americans How did the United States government attempt
to subdue Indians in the West? How did Indians resist their actions? Please include cultural and military features of the
conflict.