Key Content Terms Chapter 12

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Key Content Terms Chapter 12 Change and
Conflict in the American West

• History Alive!
• Pursuing American Ideals

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Chapter 12 - Focus Question

• What opportunities and conflicts emerged as
  Americans moved westward?

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Chisholm Trail

• The cattle-drive trail from
• San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas.

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Transcontinental Railroad

• A railroad that spans the continent.
• RR Companies given land to sell to pay for
  construction.

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Dawes Act (1887)

• Federal Law distributing land to individual
  Indians rather than tribes.
• Encouraged Indians to become assimilated.

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Homestead Act (1892)

• Federal law that grants tracks of land to western
  settlers.
• Settlers agreed to work and live on the land for
  five years.

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Exoduster

• African Americans who migrated to the Great
  Plains following the civil war.

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Populist Party

• Political Party founded in 1892.
• Called for policies to help working people.
• Example Government ownership of railroads.