- When Westward Expansion ended.
- The building of the Transcontinental Railroad
- Central Pacific Railroad Company
- Discrimination of immigrants working on the railroad.
- Exodusters
- The various "groups" that settled the West.
- How "whites got rid" of Native Americans.
- Relationship between Native Americans and U.S gov't. Be able to recognize & analyze the differences between the 2 cultures.
- Wounded Knee
- Battle of Sand Creek
- The Dawes Act
- Homestead Act
- Frederick Jackson Turner & his thesis.
- Ideologies of "Westward Expansion": manifest destiny, reservations for Native Americans, the endless west.
- Also keep in mind the reality of the west vs. the image of the west.
- Gov't involvement in the settlement of the West.
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