Westward Expansion

Removing ones culture & replacing it with another one.

• Traditionalist

• Accommodationist

• Assimilation

• Tenskwatawa

Who did Americans believe wanted them to go west?

• God

• Angels

• British

• Natives

Why were buffalos slaughtered by Americans?

• Americans needed them for food

• To make way for the railroad

• To hurt the Native Americans

• For trophies

Which was not an economic reason for going west?

• Farmland

• Railroad Company jobs

• To explore the great unknown

• Gold mining

What land was the Louisiana Purchase?

• Land West of Mississippi

• Land East of Mississippi

• Land extending to the Pacific Ocean

• Texas & Louisiana

What did the Louisiana Purchase do?

• Make the French upset with America

• Double the size of the U.S.

• Spark movement West

• Begin a conflict between Sioux & Americans

What was the Indian Removal Act?

• Forced Natives to be more American

• Forced Natives out of their homelands

• Forced Americans out of their homelands

• Gave land to Americans for free

The Indian Removal Act created a route for Natives to go west to new lands in Oklahoma. Known as:

• Oregon Trail

• Trail of Tears

• Santa Fe Trail

• Route 66

Land set aside by the U.S. Government for Native American tribes

• boomtown

• reservation

• frontier

• Great Plains

Sioux chief who tried to fight back against American settlers who were intruding on his tribal lands

• Vaquero

• Sitting Bull

• Buffalo Soldier

• Boomtown