U.S. History Review--Westward Expansion

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This Westward trail allowed traders and mountain men access to the entire Southwestern United States.

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Sante Fe Trail

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This Westward trail brought missionaries and farmers to the Willamette Valley, and gold seekers to Sutter's Mill.

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Oregon Trail

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This Westward trail opened an avenue West for emigrants to establish religious communities in the Great Salt Lake Valley.

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Mormon Trail

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This act gave any citizen or intended citizen of the United States 160 acres of free land if they cultivated it and lived on it for 5 years.

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Homestead Act

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This act gave states federal lands to construct colleges and universities.

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Morrill Act

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This act gave federal lands to railroad companies to complete a transcontinental railroad connecting the East and West coast of the United States.

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Pacific Railway Act

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This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere.

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Dawes Act

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The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to promote Indian

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Assimilation

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Series of conflicts between American Indian tribes and white settlers or the United States government, usually over land.

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Indian Wars

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Required Indian to live within clearly defined land zones where they were isolated from everybody else.

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Reservations