WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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They paid the Indians for their land and the Indians moved to Oklahoma.
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The US passed the Indian Removal Act which forced the Indians to move onto Indian reservations in Oklahoma.
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The Indians refused to move until the US government left them alone.
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The US government passed the law that allowed the settlers and the Indians to share the land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Relocation was either voluntary or forced. Army and militia patrols supervised the tribes’ westward journey. It is estimated that between 1830 and 1840 the government relocated more than 70, 000 Native Americans, thousands of whom died along what came to be known as the Trail of Tears.
Detailed explanation-2: -But between 1622 and the late 19th century, a series of wars and skirmishes known as the Indian Wars took place between American-Indians and European settlers, mainly over land control.
Detailed explanation-3: -These Indian Wars included the Sand Creek Massacre, the Sioux Wars, the Black Hills War, the Battle of Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre, among roughly thirty-five others.
Detailed explanation-4: -Colonist-Native American relations worsened over the course of the 17th century, resulting in a bloody conflict known as the First Indian War, or King Philip’s War.