UNIT 1: WESTWARD EXPANSION
HOW DO YOU CONQUER THE WEST?
FREE LAND
(1862)
160 ACRES OF LAND
MILITARY FORCE
GOING
EXTINCT
THOUSANDS OF
AFRICAN-AMERICANS LEFT THE
SOUTH TO GO TO KANSAS
RAILROADS
ACT (1887)
SUBDIVIDED INDIAN LAND
"CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP"
INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL IN
PENNSYLVANIA
CONNECTS THE EAST TO THE
WEST
FROM CALIFORNIA?
V
MOTTO -"KILL THE INDIAN,
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SAVE THE MAN"
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WHO
FOUND IN THE BLACK
HILLS
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"CUSTER'S LAST STAND"
FROM NEBRASKA? (EAST)
ACT (1862) - GOVT SUBSIDIES
FOR CORPORATIONS
CONSTRUCTING RAILROADS
SCANDALOUS!
ILLEGAL MANIPULATION OF
CONTRACTS BY A
CONSTRUCTION & FINANCE
COMPANY ASSOCIATED WITH
BUILDING THE UNION PACIFIC
RAILROAD
NATIVES DEFEAT & KILL U.S.
BU
ARMY MEN
INDIANS PLACED IN
AN AREA OF LAND GRANTED TO
INDIANS BY THE FEDERAL GOV
DANCE
MOVEMENT - BANISH THE
WHITE MAN; UNITE THE TRIBES
U.S. ARMY MASSACRE OF 300
INDIAN WOMEN & CHILDREN
Up to our own day American history has
been in a large degree the history of the
colonization of the Great West. The
existence of an area of free land, its
continuous recession, and the advance
of American settlement westward,
explain American development.
Frederick Jackson Turner
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