Westward Expansion

It is a settler's home and land.

It is a soldier's home and land.

It is the Native Americans home and land.

It is a Confederate's home and land.

Homestead

Reservation

Mexico

Canada

The reservation land had too many buffalos.

The Plains Indians were farmers and the reservation land was too far away.

The Plains Indians were not farmers and the reservation land was small and poor.

The reservation land was too large to settle.

Steel and Iron

Oil and Water

Diamonds and Rubies

Land and Gold

U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

U.S. sold adults 160 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling five years, it was theirs.

U.S. sold adults 200 acres of Great Plains land for a small amount of money and after settling fifteen years, it was theirs.

The water was cleaner in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

The railroads were less expensive in the Great Plains than in the United States.

The animals were more plentiful in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

The farmland was less expensive in the Great Plains than in the Eastern United States.

Europe

Asia

South America

Africa

Native Americans who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

Former Confederate who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

African Americans who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

Overmountain Men who moved to the Great Plains to settle.

African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the American West.

African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle Mexico.

African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the Eastern United States.

African American Calvary and Infantry units that helped settle the reservations.

Land that the U.S. government set aside for the Native Americans.

Land that the U.S. government set aside for the Exodusters.

Land that the U.S. government set aside for the former Confederates.

Land that the U.S. government set aside for immigrants.