Westward Expansion

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Cowboys moved herds of cattle from ranches to train stations to be shipped back east

used to fence land

Plots of land given to native Americans as settlers moved west

US law that attempted to Americanize Indians by giving them individual plots of land to farm

Over 40,000 people migrated west to strike it rich during the

The belief that America had the God-given right to expand across the continent.

The settlers tried to teach the Native Americans how to read, write, dress and farm in an attempt to

when these were killed it ruined life for the Plains Indians