1. Westward Expansion 1865-1914

2. U.S. Land Acquired in the 1800s

4. The Gold Rush! Eureka!!!!!!!

10. People moved West to find gold.

12. One man panning for gold. I hope I find gold and become rich!

13. Men panning for gold. I can’t find any. How about you? Nope. Me either.

14. Working on the mine.

15. African Americans Moved West.

17. Exodusters waiting for a steamship.

22. Exodusters moving West. I hope there’s no slavery in the West. I hope there’s no KKK. Maybe we can vote in the West.

23. The Homestead Act of 1862.

25. Homestead Act Stamp.

27. People traveled West on wagon roads, and on the railroad and by steamship.

28. Plowfarms, plows and families in front of their sodhouses.

31. The Cattle Kingdom.

32. Cowboys and Vaqueros.

33. Ranchers and Cowhands drove the cattle to the Transcontinental Railroad.

35. Why did the Cattle Kingdom fail?

36. Barbed wires and harsh winters brought about the end of the Cattle Kingdom.

37. The Transcontinental Railroad finished in 1869.

38. Many Immigrants, such as Irish, Mexicans and Chinese were building the Railroad.

39. The Union Pacific meets the Central Pacific in Utah in 1869.

47. The Great Plains

48. Blue skies and open prairies.

49. Nature on the Great Plains.

50. The location of the Great Plains.

53. Buffalo roamed the Plains.

54. Plains Indians hunt the buffalo.

55. The buffalo is used for tepees, clothes, tools, food and more.

56. The buffalo hide business becomes popular and settlers kill millions of buffalo.

59. Indians defend their lands, but are defeated in the end.

60. Native Americans are forced onto reservations.

62. The Dawes Act divided Indian land and gave some to the Indians in hopes they would become farmers. But they sold it to Whites for low prices.

63. Deerskin, bird feathers and cloth were also used in Native American culture.

64. Native Americans prayed for a new world without Whites in the Ghost Dance Religion.

65. Painting of the Ghost Dance.

66. Laws today protect Native American Reservations.

68. Native Americans today.