2. MANIFEST DESTINY European Americans believed it was their God given destiny to control the American continent, from Atlantic to Pacific

3. What does “Manifest Destiny” mean? How do you think these words would have made a settler feel? How do you think they would have made a Native American feel?

4. Americans FOUGHT and BOUGHT their way WEST

5. Klondike Gold Rush 1849

6. Transcontinental Railroad Chinese Immigrants Went through the Rocky Mountains

7. May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah “The Wedding of the Rails” Central Pacific and Union Pacific May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah “The Wedding of the Rails” Central Pacific and Union Pacific

8. Promontory, Utah

11.  Homestead Act was a law developed in 1862 by Congress to promote settlement of the Great Plains.  Age 21 and the head of the family could have 160 acres of land if they improved it in five years  Could buy it for a small amount of $$$  The US Government encouraged westward expansion and the Homestead Act allowed thousands of settlers to move west and start new lives.

18. A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD A Pioneer’s Sod House, SD

20.  Differences in land ownership  Railroad  Settlers trespassing on Indian Land  Discovery of gold  Slaughter of the buffalo  Broken treaties clash

21.  DAWES ACT: banned all tribal activities  Americanization or assimilation  Negotiate treaties to sell land to US  Adopt Christianity  White education  Individual land ownership  Adopt agriculture  Take away food source to force to Reservations = tracks of land

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23. 1871 to 1875, the US supported the extermination of 11 million buffalo.

24. Skull Take away the food source from the Native American and they will be forced to submit and go to the reservations.

25. Little Bighorn