Westward Expansion vs Native Americans By Chloe Dempsay
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Table of Contents Section Title Chapter 1 :All About Westward Expansion Louisiana Purchase Lewis & Clark Moving west
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Chapter 2: How were the Native Americans impacted?
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Chapter 3:Life lesson for the Native American
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Glossary Bibliography
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Chapter 1: All about Westward Expansion People need more space.Not anufe room. So we found some.What out there we. move west.
Louisiana Purchase In 1803 Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase from France for $15 million! It was 828,800 square miles. It doubled the sides of our country over night. It was west of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It was an unknown land.
Lewis and ClarK On May 14,1804 Thomas Jefferson sint Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore west. Lewis and Clark and 40 were traveling up the Missouri River. They also kept journals and their journals they had sketches of plants,animals,and maps. Once they got home people started moving west.
Westward Expansion When people started moving west they were going for gold,and for free land. It was beyond the Rocky Mountains. It ended at 1890.Now our country had 44 stats.But that was not the onile thing liveing their.
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Chapter 2: How were the Native American impacted? Their was a Native American 100 mile from home.Because the change her live. They fost her to go to white men school and do what her to do. Now she doesn't have traditional cocher. Because they take over her land. White men kick the Native American out! Because white men needed the rich soil for farming.So they had to move to poor soil. It very difficult for farming.Soon white men made them go to school and change their names.The Lakota,Blackfoot, Sirot,Cheyenne,and Arapaho were the triads that were impacted the most. A war was beginning the war of white man and Native Americans.You mite as why I tell you why because their was no room in the U.S.A. They had to move to smaller areas. Since white matook their Territory .they had no food source or supplies because the white man killed all of disinue.
Chapter 3: Life lesson For The Native Americans Native Americans were ipated on westward expansion because the white man moved into their territory. So the Native American were going into war. They now they were going to lose but they did not give up! that made it harder for white man. Now the Native Americans live among us.they remember what they did that was have be brave.
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Glossary Bison----food and supplies Impacted----A cause Rich soil----good for farming Territory---- A land that we keep White Man----American people
Bibliography Ducksters. “Westward Expansion”.2016 Online.1/8/2016 www.ducksters.com Perritano,John.The Lewis and Clark Expansion.New york:children’s.press.2010. Missouri weekly.”Gateway to the west”.American Legion publishing,Inc,2012.
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