Westward Expansion

List and describe 3 ways this Painting depicts Manifest Destiny

Name 3 Factors that contributed to the settlement of the West

Name 3 Hardships settlers might have faced during the Westward Expansion 

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad