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Unit 3 Westward Expansion (Native Americans (Manifest Destiny (Americas…

- - - - Forever divides U.S and Natives
      - Trail of Tears
      - War
  - - - Wounded Knee
        
        Seventh Calvary rounded up 350 starving/freezing Sioux and then brutally assassinated then. This would mark the end of the war between the Natives and U.S
      - Sand creek Massacre
        
        1864, Colorado. Cheyenne were abolished by Us Army troops. 130+ Cheyenne were killed. Majority were women and children
      - Battle of Little Big Horn
        
        U.S troops engaged into a fight with the Sioux. All 700 troops where killed and dismantled by the Natives
      - Red River War
        
        The Cheyenne and the Comanche where engaged in a 6 year war. Us troops would fire at anyone who they thought where a danger to the colonist
- - - - The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico
        
        The U.S won against Mexico and took control over Texas in 1948
    - - Victory for America
      - On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers under the command of General Zachary Taylor killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande
- - - - Every Time a slave state was added a free state would also be added to prevent tencion
      - Agreement passed by congress that keeps the balance of free states and slave states
    - - system of trading that brought slaves to the American Colonist in Exchange for goods
      - 12.5 million slaves were brought to America. 10.5 million survived the trip: Over 2 million slaves died, and only 400,000 were sent to america
    - - When slaves got caught their owners would often punish them severely or even kill them
      - If someone was to get caught helping a slave they would usually take them to jail, beat them, or kill them