(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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General George Custer and his forces are defeated by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors on June 25, 1876; popularly known as Custer's Last Stand.
African Americans who moved to the West from the 1840s to late 1890s.
Explored the Louisiana Purchase from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
Drew settlers to the West between 1849-70.
Land bought from France, which doubled the size of the United States.
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A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah.
A special act of Congress that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
Brought growth and new settlement all across the West; enabled people, supplies, and mail to move quickly and cheaply and safer across the plains and the mountains; led to development of larger cities and villages, and to the addition of six stat
The last major confrontation (1890) between the US Army and North American Indians on a reservation in South Dakota. More than 150 largely unarmed Sioux men, women, and children were massacred.
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
The belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny and God given right of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, socia
People who moved West to stake their claim.
Population growth in the eastern states; availability of cheap, fertile land; economic opportunity, e.g., gold, logging, farming, freedom (for runaway slaves); cheaper and faster transportation; knowledge of overland trails; “Manifest Destiny”
Policy in which Native Americans were sent to boarding schools and made to look like American citizens.
