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The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase is doubled the size of the United States. it helped the country materially and strategically it provided a powerful drive to westward growth and confirmed the teaching of implied powers of the federal law. it was inportant because the reason included future the invention of the barbed wire and big success and the mystery of unknown lands. President Jefferson had a personal library filled with the worlds largest selection of books in the Louisiana Territory. -
The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush excited a movement west which only further catch plain destiny. The Rush offered people the dream of moving were staying a claim on your own land and finding gold. This dream became reality for some and who followed the route west and created a new life through clear Destiny gold rush or gold fever is a discovered of gold and sometimes go with metals and rare earth minerals that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. -
The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a nominal filing fee. Among its provisions was a five year requirement of continuous residence before receiving the title to the land and the settlers had to be or in the process of becoming U.S. citizens and gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it improve it and pay a small registration fee. -
the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
In addition to transporting western food crops and raw materials to East Coast markets and manufactured goods from East Coast cities to the West Coast b the railroad also facilitated international trade. The building of the transcontinental railroad opened up the American West to more development. The railroad also facilitated westward expansion escalating conflicts between Native American tribes and settlers who now had easier access to new territories. -
the invention of the barbed wire
Native Americans used to roam freely but now these barbed wire fences began. Some even began calling barbed wire the Devil's Rope The invention of barbed wire changed the west for good limiting the open range and starting many fights over land On October 27 1873 a De Kalb Illinois farmer named Joseph Glidden submits an application to the U.S. Patent Office for his clever new design for a fencing wire with sharp barbs an invention that will forever change the face of the American West. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn called Custer's Last Stand marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. On June 25 1876 Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt -
The Dawes Act
to create divisions among Native Americans and get rid of the social cohesion of tribes.The Dawes Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. It the President of the United States to subdivide Native American aproved tribal communal landholdings to share Native American heads of families and individuals. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The massacre was the top of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to crush the Plains Indians. 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead. in what was the final fight between federal troops and the Sioux.
