Go West: U.S. Westward Expansion - THE PRICE of FREE LAND

Built in 1868, this courier & ives prints are based on Frank Palmer's painting by "Funny". Its title is as follows. "Cross the Continent: the process of going west to the empire."

As the Indians lose their lands and their leaders, their lives will change forever as the expansion to the West continues.

Buffalo is an important part of American food and clothing supply sources and was slaughtered by thousands of people as "hidden hunters" superseded Indian warriors in the plains.

Kit Carson, who once became friends with Navajos, eradicated at least 9,000 people and forced "long walk" to Bosque Redondo, a wasteland of New Mexico in 1864. Many people including senior citizens and children died on the way.

In the territory of Arizona, the Indians dug an irrigation groove after moving to hot lands. Many of the land is still dry

Geronimo (Apache Medical Scientist) and his son (wearing a matching shirt) were arrested and sent to Florida for exile. Bigfoot (Sui leader) died on the battlefield of an injured knee (1890)

The amount of land lost by Native Americans has reached about 5 billion acres between 1776 and 1887. Dr. Claudio Thorn, a professor at the University of Georgia, has created a video to explain the impact of these losses on Native Americans. These years

The critics of this article stress that this "free land" is not free. Prior to expansion to the west, Native American, Hispanic, and mixed race lived in the West and had their own culture. Critics believe that the land has been conquered rather than "settled", and that many people are forced to leave the house and enter the protected area. The result of this wave of expansion also led to repression and greed. When people flocked to the west to find gold, the town rose. Later, these villages became ghost towns. Instead of Turner, the expansion to the West is glorious, and critics believe that it is corrupt in disgrace.

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8 - U 4.2.3 Expansion to the West - Exploring the expansion of the West, conquering it through Louisiana, pulling America's Indians away from their hometown, developing agricultural systems, the Mexican-American War, and

Why is it important to expand to the west and why is it expanding to the west? There is a complete continent to explore, various climates, geographical features, vegetation, animals, raw materials and so on. The possibility of new resources and large land is waiting for American settlers to discover that some of the land is almost free. Westward Expansion gives people the opportunity to find new houses and jobs, experience adventure, explore possibilities, find gold and silver, remove civilization restraint, and start over. In other words, Westward Expansion makes it possible for people to live "American dreams". For a variety of practical reasons, Americans have a motive to move westward, but their inspiration is God's will to come from the obvious fate of America.