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This act allowed the president to make treaties with tribes in exchange for their land. This act lead to the forced removal of many Native Americans also known as the Trail of Tears -
The Texas Revolution started from the Battle of Alamo. The Texas Revolution was a battle between Mexico forces and Texas colonists. The Texas colonists were wanting their freedom and wanting to withdraw from Mexico control. -
The Oregon trail was used for westward expansion for moving hundreds of thousands of people mostly Native Americans to move to the Pacific Northwest for new land and new opportunities. -
The Mormons followed American tradition, the quest for religious freedom. Several thousand Mormons forged their way along a path that became known as the Mormon trail. In 1847 the Mormons stopping ion what is now Salt Lake City and climbed it as theirs and called it the dessert -
The Mexican American War was the cause for the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty gave U.S. about 55% of Mexico's land, that land was turned into some states that we have today like, California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico for 15 million dollars. This Treaty was important because it stopped the fighting happening on the borders and people trying to steal land. -
The California Gold Rush caused a lot of people who were wanting to seek out their fortune and were struggling to start a future to all move out to California. This caused California to become a very populated area and new cities and factories were becoming built really fast due to the raise of the population. -
The United States bought 29,670 square miles of land from Mexico for around 10 million dollars. This land was used to be now southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. This land was purchased so that U.S. could build a transactional railroad to go across the south like the north had to connect the east coast to the west coast. -
The Missouri Compromise allowed settlement in the northern Great Plains. They opened up the lands west of Missouri and Iowa to settlers because the United States wanted to build a northern route for railroads. -
The Homestead Act offered free land to settlers who were willing to farm and live on it for at least 5 years encouraging westward migration and settling. -
In 1867 the United States signed a deal with Russia to get the land chunk known today as Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. When the United States made this deal it was originally mocked for a useless land purchase being separated by Canada but was later proved to be worth it with the discovery of gold.