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Westward Expansion:Post Civil War

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Native Culture

Native American Indian population/cultures before Europeans arrive

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Trail of Tears—The Movement from East to West

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Trail of Tears Route

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Trail of Tears to Indian Territory

Indian Territory—Native Americans moved from east join Native Americans from west

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Native American Post-Reservation

Native Americans were forced onto reservations in the land west of the Mississippi River between 1867-1900.

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Minnesota Native American Land Lost

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Minnesota Reservations

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Black Population in US 1800

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Black Population in US 1900

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Manifest Destiny Again

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Homesteaders Homestead

Act 1862

Farmers headed west

Land for free—but taken from Native Americans

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US Population 1850

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US Population 1900Notice the change!

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Railroads heading West: Late 1800s

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Railroads by 1890

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Impact of Railroads on Expansion

Transcontinental Railroad build 1863-1869

Allowed for Railroads to sell land along route

Note the dates of Homestead Act 1862 and the reservation policy for Native Americans as 1867—Do you think they are at all related to the building of the railroad?

If you kill the buffalo, build railroads across the land, and add farmers to carve up the land—what happens to the Native American culture?

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Buffalo and Decline

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Killing the Buffalo The Native

American Way—use all parts, share the resources

The American way—kill for sport and bounty and leave remains to rot

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Railroads support killing

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Buffalo Skulls

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Buffalo Hides

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US Population 2000

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Where are people living?

Think back to the migration and immigration during the period of westward expansion. Think of a group—now where would they live? Another group Did you think about these groups? Where do

they live?