Westward Expansion

The reason why something happens. Comes before an event or action.

• action

• cause

• event

• effect

to absorb a group into the culture of another population

• annex

• assimilate

• effect

• immigration

The belief that it was the United States "god given right" to expand to the West.

• effect

• assimilate

• annex

• Manifest Destiny

The policy of expanding a nation's territory or economic influence.

• annex

• expansionism

• homesteader

• Dawes Act

Allowed the U.S. Government to divide up Native American reservations for individual ownership.

• Expansionism

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Reservation

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Union Central RR

• Central Pacific RR

• Cause

Promised land to anyone willing to farm and protect land in the Midwest. This person would then be called a homesteader.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Annex

• Assimilate

Land set aside by the United States government for Native Americans

• Reserve

• Reservation

• Assimilate

• Dawes Act

A result or consequence of an action. Comes after an event or action.

• action

• effect

• cause

• reasoning

to attach or add on.

• attach

• reservation

• expansionism

• annex