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Manifest Destiny
Americans believed they should own all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean; coast to coast.
Nope. Me either.
Exodusters.
Many African Americans moved to the West from the 1840s to late 1890s. They were escaping the difficult life in the South where Whites practiced Jim Crow Laws and denied African Americans their new Constitutional Rights.
Homesteaders.
People moved West to stake their claim.
People traveled West on wagon roads, and on the railroad and by steamship.
Farmers in crisis.
Farmers could not repay their debts. The Populist party tried to help farmers. They wanted government to reduce railroad rates and to help with (falling) decreasing prices for grain. Populists wanted all the silver mined in the West to be turned into coinage (money). Free silver would make it easier for farmers to repay their debts. The United States did not turn silver into money.
Barbed wires and harsh winters brought about the end of the
Cattle Kingdom.
Many Immigrants, such as Irish, Mexicans and Chinese were building the Railroad.
The buffalo is used for tepees, clothes, tools, food and more.
The buffalo hide business becomes popular and settlers kill millions of buffalo.
BROKEN PROMISES!
The United States government made many treaties with the Native Americans not to fight and not to touch certain areas of their land. For example, The Fort Laramie Treaty was a treaty made with the Cheyenne tribe, where Americans said an area of land belonged to the Cheyenne forever! However, when gold was discovered there, the Americans forced them to sign a new treaty giving up the land. The United States government broke many treaties with the Native Americans.
Geronimo
Lakotas & Cheyenne
Chief Joseph
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.
Deerskin, bird feathers and cloth were also used in Native American culture.
Native Americans prayed for a new world without Whites in the Ghost Dance Religion.
How would you feel about your history if you were a Native American?