WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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It expanded slavery to new territories.
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It relocated American Indians to less fertile land.
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It increased the population of American Indians east of the Mississippi.
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It resulted in the deaths of thousands of American Indians.
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Detailed explanation-1: -More than 46, 000 Native Americans were forced-sometimes by the U.S. military-to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory” that eventually became the state of Oklahoma. More than 4, 000 died on the journey-of disease, starvation, and exposure to extreme weather.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which did not occur as a result of the Indian Removal Act? New treaties were created with the federal government.
Detailed explanation-3: -Losing Indian lands resulted in a loss of cultural identity, as tribes relied on their homelands as the place of ancestral burial locations and sacred sites where religious ceremonies were performed. Without their lands, nations lost their identities, and their purpose.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government. Approximately 4, 000 Cherokees died on this forced march, which became known as the “Trail of Tears."