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Manifest Destiny was a beliefe that american settlers were to expand west across North America. This is to get more "elbow room", elbow room is more space the settlers were packing in so they expanded west.

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How manifest destiny helped the westward expansion

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How manifest destiny helped the westward expansion

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Manifest destiny helped the westward expansion because it helped western settlement and helped push Native Americans out of America

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they came from overseas as immigrants or they were Americans and went to California by land.

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the gold seekers that were immigrants faced violent attacks from the whites, because they were american.

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there was a huge drop in Native Americans. the mining also effected the environment such as fish being killed from chemicals getting into the water

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A long term effect of the gold rush is population. the environment being effected immediately it has also shown a long term effect.

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how did the discovery of gold shape the economy and California?

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how did the discovery of gold shape the economy and California?

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the gold rush populated California. by the end of the century California was an economic powerhouse.

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The native Americans were forced off their land because the white settlers wanted to expand to their land and the government forced the Native Americans out.

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Assimilation is the way of understanding information or ideas. the US encouraged assimilation in american culture so that he native Americans that chose to settle and leave their tribes could adapt to white culture better.

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key turning points in the relationship between the plains Indianans and the US government

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key turning points in the relationship between the plains Indianans and the US government

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first the government started a policy that moved Native Americans off their land, then they were being restricted to smaller parts of land. the Indians tried to gain land and access to the gold mines in Minnesota but failed. the Indians were told they had to adapt to white culture in order to gain peace.

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what attracted settlers to the great plains?

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what attracted settlers to the great plains?

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there was relatively cheep land. and the railroads that were present, this was a way to get to the plains and was a way to get crops out to populated areas.

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how did physical geography impact settlers there?

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how did physical geography impact settlers there?

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pioneers kept moving west because they didn't think that the land was suitable for farming

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What new methods and technologies were invented to improve agriculture practices?

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What new methods and technologies were invented to improve agriculture practices?

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a barbed wire fence was used to keep animals away from crops. there were steel plows in order to break through the ground easier. there were windmills that would pump water, and they had railroads to bring goods to different places.

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what hardships did they face? what convinced some to stay and some to leave?

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what hardships did they face? what convinced some to stay and some to leave?

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there were droughts and bad winters. the settlers also had to learn how to far and the sod on the land was super tough. Some farmers were convinced to stay because they had land and had a sod built home and after 5 years of tending to their land they were able to call it their own. Some left because they weren't making profit and because of the weather.

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https://riversprojectweek.weebly.com/impacts.html

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https://www.historynet.com/california-gold-rush
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/the-gilded-age/american-west/a/the-gold-rush
https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/1849-san-francisco-gold-rush/

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https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/indian-reservations
http://mrbidellcss.weebly.com/uploads/5/8/3/6/58365785/westward_expansion_and_the_american_indians.ppt

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https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/explain-why-great-plains-was-last-settled-what-240903
https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib4/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/12533/Advancements%20Filled%20In.pdf