Westward Expansion

ColonizationWhat is colonization?

Types of ColonizationResource extraction colonies

Settler colonies

How did European colonists/settlers obtain Native American land?

Tecumseh

Andrew Jackson, 1830

“What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?”

The Trail of Tears

Manifest DestinyWhat was Manifest Destiny?

John O’Sullivan, 1845 “Our manifest destiny [is] to overspread the

continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”

Taking the West

Dakota War of 1862

The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876

Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890

Watch “The Last of the Sioux”: http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/american-indian-wars/videos

Native American Reservations

Assimilation through Residential Boarding

Schools Richard H. Pratt, founder of the Carlisle school,

speaking in 1892:

“A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

“Transfer the savage-born infant to the surroundings of civilization, and he will grow to possess a civilized language and habit.”

Settling the West

Homestead Acts

Why Did People Go West?

Push v. Pull

The Railroad

Watch video: http://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion

Borderlands

DiscussionFrederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”