Western Expansion Case Study

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1. How did US expansion into the west affect the American Indian?
When Americans expanded into the west they also moved into the land the American Indians lived on. The Americans constantly forced American Indians to move location. Eventually when almost all of what is now the “Modern Day America” was settled American Indians were forcefully abducted and put into American schools to learn English and to forget their past.

2. How was western expansion reliant on the Railroad and how did this lead to political changes in the United States? Western expansion relied on the railroad because the railroad was what supplied the West with it’s people and supplies that it had. Without the railroad the west probably would have taken a lot longer to