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The Native Americans were forced off their lands because white settlers wanted that land for their own to do things like grown cotton.

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The concept of manifest destiny influenced Westward Expansion due to people believing that moving west was inevitable and  America's fate.

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Map: http://cantonasylumforinsaneindians.com/history_blog/tag/bia/
Image:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Progress_(John_Gast_painting).jpg
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQBTPY7gk
Others:
https://riversprojectweek.weebly.com/impacts.html
https://www.britannica.com/event/Manifest-Destiny

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The things that attracted the settlers to the Great Plains was because there was a lot of relativity cheap land for farming and railroads.

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The physical geography impacted the settlers because there wan't many trees or building supplies/materials, the sod was very hard to break considering the fact that its never been plowed before, and there were always droughts in the summer so the farmers had to plant their seeds deeper. The farmers on the great planes had to think of new ways on how to do things due to these conditions. That's why the steel tipped plow and the seed drill were invented.

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New methods and technologies that were invented to improve agricultural practices included dry farming, wheat farming, the steel plow, windmills, a mechanical reaper, beef cattle raising, and barbed wire.

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Settlers faced hardships like droughts, dust storms, pests, hot summers, and cold winters. The settlers had to learn how to adapt to a lot of things like the lack of wood, farming on sod, and water that wasn't super accessible.

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Some settlers left because of the dust bowls and droughts. Others stayed because of their original reason for coming to the plains in the first place.

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The process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group or nation, or the state of being socially integrated into the culture of the dominant group in a society.

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The US government encouraged assimilation into American culture by creating the Dawes Act, which offered the Native Americans free farm land for those who chose to leave their tribe and become farmers.

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The gold seekers came from the California and East Coast at first, then all over America and Australia and New Zealand.

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Some key points to note from the Plains Indians and the United States government's relationship are the United States government breaking over 300 treaties that were both agreed to by the Native Americans and the United States. The United States killed tons of buffalo to starve Native Americans and tempt them into giving up. The United States also tried forced assimilation in hopes to "preserve the man" in the Native American.  The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre were also huge key factors in the Natives and the United States as both of those instances were between them two.

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Once the gold seekers reached West, they were treated very poorly because the mining camps were violent and had no laws. Immigrants were usually the victims of these violent crimes because they were not welcomed by Americans. On top of this, the legal system didn't protect immigrants.

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The short and long term effects of the gold rush were things like, debt, sickness, death, decreased population in other states, increased population in California, poisoned waters, and deforestation. On top of that, many indigenous people died from starvation, disease and abuse and had their lands completely destroyed.

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The discovery of gold shaped the population in California because
gold rush brought 300,00 people from all over to California. This rapid increase in their population helped get California their statehood more quickly, which resulted in them being able to link with the transcontinental railroad. The discovery of gold shaped the economy in California because the money helped finance the civil war. Gold also helped the United States economy because they added gold to the money supply. And last but not least, some people found out that you could make a lot more money supplying the miners, which created more jobs, etc. and that helped the economy take off from there.

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Image:
https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849
Others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush#Forty-niners
https://thegoldrushof1849westproject.weebly.com/lasting-effects-of-the-gold-rush.html
https://www.hickmanmills.org/cms/lib3/MO01001730/Centricity/Domain/794/Chinese%20Immigrants%20and%20the%20California%20Gold%20Rush.htm
https://www.britannica.com/story/gold-fever
http://aliciagoldrush.weebly.com/the-gold-rush-benefits.html
https://eh.net/encyclopedia/california-gold-rush/

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Image:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3646248/pictures-native-indians-before-after-assimilated-carlisle/
Definition: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/assimilation
Others:
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
https://www.fasttrackteaching.com/ffap/Unit_2_Westward/U2_Assimilation_of_Indians.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

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Image:
https://www.fasttrackteaching.com/ffap/Unit_2_Westward/U2_adaptations_inventions_plains.html
Others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains
https://www.eduplace.com/ss/socsci/books/content/ilessons/5/ils_gr5a_u7_c14_l2.pdf
https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib4/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/12533/Advancements%20Filled%20In.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-mass-exodus-plains/
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/problems-farming-great-plains-settlers-359340