How America settled the west
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| Manifest Destiny | Called for the US expansion to the West and beyond. It was inevitable!
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| Homestead Act | Gave 160 Acres of land in the west to a settler who would improve on it by building and farming it for 5 years.
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| 36 30 line | The line of latitude that divided the free and slave states.
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| Transcontinental Railroad | Considered the single biggest engineering feat in US history leading it to grow and prosper.
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| Dawes Act | Native American policy to "Kill the Indian and Save the Man", and eliminate Indian culture and their way of life.
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| Trail of Tears | Forceful expulsion of the Cherokee from the East of Northern Georgia to the west in Oklahoma.
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| Exodusters | Black homesteaders that went west (Kansas) to escape Jim Crow and own and farm the land
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| Boom Town | Towns that popped up in the west because of economic opportunities that arose.
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| Ghost Town | Towns that dried up and died out because the economic opportunities that popped up disappeared quickly.
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| Technological Innovation | Because the west was so untamed and had such extremes, in order to pull people west, many of the obstacles needed to be solved for people to succeed.
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