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- - - - Were very successful, opened banks, mills , printing presses, etc
        
        Non- Mormons became envious, Banks crashed and Mormons were blamed and chased out
  - - - Attempts made to stop Mormons voting and riots occured
        
        Mormons held responsible for violence and leaders were imprisoned
        
        Declared public enemies and were eventually driven out of the state
  - - - Mormons were allowed to develop it as an independent state
        
        By 1848 Navoo was praised as the best in the west
        
        Had around 35,000 Mormons and had an army of 4000 (Navvoo Legion)
        
        Their success was hated but the introduction of Polygamy made them extra hated
        
        Joseph Smith was taken into prison and in 1844 a mob shot and killed him
  - - - Young decided that they should settle near the great salt lake in mexico at the time
  - - - Mormons requested a large sate named Deseret
        
        U.S gave them the smaller Utah
  - - - The Mormons foughtback and utterly defeated the incoming U.S army
  - - - Captains would be in charge of trains, trains would be split into tens and ordered by leutenints
        
        Brigham Young was a great organised and planned greatly for the crossing
        
        The crossing was efficient and smooth
  - - - Education - education was poor as children were needed on the farms
  - - - The angered Mormons ended up killing a few of the emigrants
        
        Ended up killing them all to hide what they had done, blamed it on the Plains Indians
- - - - Diverse- agriculture industry
      - Big population
      - More powerfully politically
      - 1832 - anti slave society
    - - Relied on cotton
      - Only 5% owned slaves
      - Slaves were needed for cotton
      - Outnumbered Population wise
  - - - An imaginary line was drawn form the border of Missouri saying that nay states north of this could not become Slave states
    - - Kansas wanted to be a slave state but was above the Missouri line
        
        A referendum was held and it was allowed to be a salve state, weakened the Missouri Lines integrity
  - - - Northern opportunist using the poorer south to make money
    - - People in the south who supported the north and didn't own salves
  - - - This lead to 11 slave states forming the confederacy with a different president
  - - - freed all slaves in every state
    - - gave equal rights to all African Americans and freed slaves
    - - tried to stop the prevention of voting due to social background or race
    - - South
        
        The south suffered a lot as the North blocked their trade with the UK and France - they couldn't trade their cotton which their economy relied on
      - North
        
        Slight dip in sales as customers from the south weren't visiting but overall the North wasn't affected
    - - 700,00 African Americans could now vote but this was still a small percentage of the population
      - Some southerners ignored laws like the 15th amendment and tried to stop black people from voting
      - KKK members were only fined rather than being imprisoned, leading to more violence against African Americans
- - - - Buffalo began to be hunted to sell their hide
        
        By the 1880's most of the Buffalo herds had been killed
        
        Plains Indians had lost their main food source and a lot of resources
    - - Exterminators
        
        Settlers, ranchers, miners, soldiers
        
        They believed the Indians needed to be killed
      - Negotiators
        
        Thought that negotiating was better than fighting
        
        These people wanted a negotiated solution of the Indian problem
      - Little Crows War
        
        Cheyenne War
        
        Red clouds war
        
        All wars won by U.S
        
        Plains Indians lost land
        
        Poeple began to see the Indians as a threat
        
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  - - - Public Opinion quickly changed and peace was thought to be not an option anymore
  - - - Ghost dance spread, supported by Sitting bull
        
        American government shot sitting bull and others after they demanded his capture
        
        29th December 1890 the rest of the Plains Indians from sitting bull were disarming for the U.S army where they were massacred due to some warriors refused to disarm
        
        This massacre marked the end of the Indian frontier
- - - - Land was given free provided they lived and farmed it for 5 years
  - - - Settlers had to plant 40 acres with trees
  - - - provided intensive for transcontinental railroad building
    - - Tow companies hire nearly went bust building it
    - - Mnay people interested in moving west and living near the railroad
- - - - Life relied on hunting the buffaloes
        
        Lived in small houses called tipis
    - - Would fight between each other and cause conflict
        
        All had their own territories and borders
  - - - 1830 - Forcibly removed all tribal groups living in the East and Relocate all native Americans west of the Mississippi river
    - - Plains Indians allowed to live without government interference
        
        Plains were given as one big reservation
        
        Permanent Indian Frontier between Eastern states and Plains Indians
  - - - The negotiators and Indians couldn't communicate as there weren't enough translaters
    - - Indian Society did not work this way
- - - - 1848 gold was discovered by James Marshall
      - California become the most prosperous state of the time
    - - Negative
        
        one in twelve died to crime
        
        Very poor quality of life
        
        Racial violence against immigrants who came to work in the mines
        
        Prostitution and gambling was rife
      - Positive
        
        Improved transportation between California and the east coast
        
        Gold rush made the USA a world trader
        
        Towns and cities were charted and California population reached 200,000 by 1855
  - - - Some went due to the fertile lands and excitement of the new
      - Others left due to economic depression and overcrowding in the East