What was the conflict between the Native Americans and Europeans?
The Native Americans resented and resisted the colonists’ attempts to change them. Their refusal to conform to European culture angered the colonists and hostilities soon broke out between the two groups.
What impact did westward expansion have on Native American?
As ranchers, miners, and farmers moved onto the Plains, they deprived Native Americans of their hunting grounds, broke treaties, and forced relocation. Native Americans attacked wagon trains, stagecoaches, and ranchers. Occasionally an entire group would go to war against nearby settlers and troops.
What did Native Americans in the West often traded?
American Indian life was based on hunting and thus furs were one of the main goods traded by them in exchange for manufactured ones.
How did Pioneer Trails and the settlers who traveled negatively affect American Indians?
How did the pioneers significantly affect Native Americans? Settlers refused to help American Indians find better sources of water. Settlers helped American Indians preserve native plants and animals. Settlers spread diseases that killed thousands of American Indians.
Where did most pioneers settle?
Early pioneers extended American settlements to the Mississippi Valley. Later pioneers settled the Great Plains and the West Coast. The Oregon Trail was one of the most traveled trails heading west.
What was the most important landmark along the Oregon Trail?
Independence Rock
What two leading motivations caused pioneers to move west?
Pioneer settlers were sometimes pulled west because they wanted to make a better living. Others received letters from friends or family members who had moved west. These letters often told about a good life on the frontier. The biggest factor that pulled pioneers west was the opportunity to buy land.
When did Pioneers start moving west?
1846
What was the biggest motivator for moving West?
Besides nationalism, or pride for one’s country, pioneers were motivated to explore and move to the West because of personal economic opportunity. The land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian Mountains was becoming more populated.
What were the three main trails that led to the West?
The Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails were the 3 main trails that led to the West during Manifest Destiny.
What influenced westward expansion?
What factors influenced westward expansion? Population growth in the eastern states, availability of cheap, fertile land, economic opportunity, gold, logging, farming, freedom for runaway slaves, and spreading manifest destiny.
What was the economy based on in the West?
During the Gold Rush days, farming and mining were the West Region’s major industries. Other businesses began as more people moved into the region. Today, farming and mining are still done. You will also find manufacturing, technology, and tourism in the region.
How were farmers affected by the westward expansion?
There were tremendous economic difficulties associated with Western farm life. First and foremost was overproduction. Because the amount of land under cultivation increased dramatically and new farming techniques produced greater and greater yields, the food market became so flooded with goods that prices fell sharply.
What were two problems for farmers who settled the West?
As settlers and homesteaders moved westward to improve the land given to them through the Homestead Act, they faced a difficult and often insurmountable challenge. The land was difficult to farm, there were few building materials, and harsh weather, insects, and inexperience led to frequent setbacks.
How did farmers get land in the West?
A farmer could get wood to build his house. But he had to buy the wood and pay the railroad to bring it west. To farm the plains, he needed barbed wire for fences, and plows and other new equipment. So a plains farmer had to grow crops that were in big demand.
Why is growing wheat so important to the US to the world?
Wheat is perhaps the most political commodity in the world because it is the main ingredient in the most basic food, which is bread. While the United States is the world’s largest producer and exporter of corn and soybeans, wheat production comes from all corners of the earth.