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Manifest Destiny is the idea that we were bound to move from the East to the West. A famous picture called American Progress from back then showed an angle walking  with farmer, hunters, pioneers and many more to explore the West. With the song Elbow Room it gives us the idea that they were running out of room and that we needed to expand. And it told us how we expanded.
https://u46.instructure.com/courses/38846/modules/items/2727469

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The concept of them moving happened when they got the idea that we were meant to move all the way to the West. So when Thomas Jefferson purchased the land. Everyone wanted to move West because that's where they thought they were meant to be.

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People came from all over the Untied States to try and find gold in California. That's what made some people even move to the West cause there was the idea of gold.

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There was a lot of violence when they got to California people were fighting over gold and some people were even dying.

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The gold rush created a lasting impact that made the industrial and agricultural development grow so much for California. Along with it's economic growth as well.

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The discovery of gold made everything change for everyone who lived in California. All of the parts of the economy changed once gold was found. And with the idea that people could find gold and get rich that made more and more people want to come to the west.

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Indians were forced off their lands because of the fact that the US government believed that Natives didn't have any rights to land.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears#:~:text=Working%20on%20behalf%20of%20white,territory%E2%80%9D%20across%20the%20Mississippi%20River.

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The US encouraged this because they knew that it would help their population and that it would help the economy. For example they offered free land to natives to help there families but they had to leave their tribe in return.
https://www.fasttrackteaching.com/ffap/Unit_2_Westward/U2_Assimilation_of_Indians.html#:~:text=To%20encourage%20assimilation%2C%20the%20government,and%20become%20settled%2C%20independent%20farmers.

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The battles at Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee. Those were 2 battles that were turning points in the Natives and US governments relationship. It made the Natives very upset that they tried and take there lands and ruined there relationship as well.

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There were 2 things that attracted settlers those were that large pieces of land that were pretty cheap and that the government helped with the Homestead Act that gave settlers free land.

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It effected them because the weather climate changed was pretty big compared to California back then. The cold weather months effected a lot because in California there was not snow like there is in the Midwest.

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They learned how to increase there crop production and they shared them with other farmers so there production would grow as well. And they didn't just do this with crops the also did it with livestock and they found ways to get more and more of it.

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When the land got dry and it got hard to grow crops it made people want to leave. Also the fact that they would lose crops to weather and even insects are another reason. And when they didn't have the materials they to build a stable home it would fall to all of the elements and they would leave soon after that.