This document summarizes key aspects of Westward Expansion in the United States, including: 1) It discusses how European colonists obtained Native American land through resource extraction colonies, settler colonies, and conflicts like those led by Tecumseh and resulting from the Trail of Tears. 2) It explains the concept of Manifest Destiny and quotes related to it promoting westward expansion. It then outlines some major conflicts with Native Americans like the Dakota War, Battle of Little Bighorn, and Wounded Knee Massacre. 3) Finally, it discusses the establishment of Native American reservations, assimilation of Native Americans through residential boarding schools, the role of the railroad and homestead acts in west

1. Westward
Expansion

2. Colonization
What is colonization?

4. Types of Colonization
Resource extraction colonies
Settler colonies

6. How did European
colonists/settlers obtain
Native American land?

8. Tecumseh

9. 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?”

10. The Trail
of Tears

11. Manifest Destiny
What was Manifest Destiny?

12. John O’Sullivan, 1845
 “Our manifest destiny [is] to overspread the
continent allotted by Providence for the free
development of our yearly multiplying millions.”

17. Taking the West

19. Dakota War of 1862

20. 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

21. Native American Reservations

22. 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.”

28. Settling the West

29. Homestead
Acts

31. Why Did People Go West?
 Push v. Pull

32. The Railroad

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

38. Borderlands

46. Discussion
Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”