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what was the westward expansion

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Why do they call it riding shotgun?
Because they needed protection for the stagecoaches.

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What are the 4 main trails?
Oregon, Santa Fe, California, and Mormon Trails.

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Where did the Central Pacific and Union Pacific meet?

Promontory Summit, Utah

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How much did the Louisiana purchase cost?

233 million dollars

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What was the Manifest Destiny? The belief that Americans could move western because God says so.

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What happened to the Donner party?
cannibalism

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What is a cattle rustler?

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what's a Sodbuster?
A farmer

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When was the westward expansion? 19th century

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What is a sooner? A person who went early for land.

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What were reason for moving west?
New land

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What is a vigilante? someone that takes law into their hands.

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Whats an exoduster?

A black person moving westward.

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Chinese exclusion act of

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When was the Indian Citizenship act?

1924

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Who was sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the new land, gained by the Louisiana purchase?

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What is a boomer ?

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Why did the Pony express shut down?
telegraph trains

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What was the guys name who thought he was Napoleon in Mexico during the Mexican War? Sneta

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Why were wagon trains formed?

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Why did people want to move west?

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Name difficulties for going west?

Isloation

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What was at Pike's Peak?
GOLD

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When and where was gold found in California?

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What was the main idea for manifest destiny?