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An attempt by the Sioux to keep their culture alive. This attempt was crushed before taking much effect.
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Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston display the power of the steamboat, the Clermont.
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The Mexican governments attempt at attracting American settlers to Texas.
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A Franciscan chapel, mainly found in Texas and California, though there were some in New Mexico.
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The Erie Canal, a route to the west, is finally completed.
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When Jackson forced Natives out of their home. A cruel event by all means.
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When a man (Worcester) claimed that Cherokee people should not be harassed. Jackson passed the Removal Act anyway.
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When Cherokee Indians were frced out of their homes due to one of Jackson's "treaties."
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Took a portion of Cherokee land for $5.6 million dollars.
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A standoff between Mexican troops and a group of rebels. A massacre, and some people say this was where Daniel Boone kicked the bucket
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The route taken by most settlers to reach the West.
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A phrase coined by John O'Sullivan, refering to the belief that America was destined to conquer the West for God.
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This was a group traveling West. Led off course by a guidebook, they resorted to cannibalism.
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Split the US in half horinzontally so the bottom portion would be slave states and the upper half would be free, even though California was the exception.
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Southwestern people used this trail to move Westward instead of the Oregon trail.
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An amendement, which stated that slavery in the Mexican cession be banned, aside from in Texas. This passed in the House, but not Senate, and became another point of conflict for the North and South.
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A railroad that spanned over the continent to make access to the West much easier.
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This act asked for reservations to be broken up and the Indians that accepted became citizens within a quarter of a century.
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In which Worcester claimed that the Cherokee should be protected from harassment.
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In which the US Army slaughtered 300 Natives and began the war of the West.
