WESTWARD EXPANSION

EXPANSION

• Near the end of civil war , close to 250,000 indians lived west from the mississippi river.
• They were nomadic cheyenne, comaches, Black feet, and crowe.
• They sent them to the great American desert as was thought to be uninhabitable.

NATIVE AMERICANS

• Moveing Native Americans for white settlers .
• Gold & silver in Native American territory.
• Regulates trade with white settlers.

WHITES

• White men wanted a railroad to get across the contienent.
• Seperate Reservation to specific area's set aside by Government for Indians use!