Manifest Destiny - Settlers believed it was their god given right to expand out West., Homestead Act - Law that offered 160 acres of public land in the west to encourage settlement., Dawes Act - Law that forced Native Americans to assimilate and move to reservations., Transcontinental Railroad - The railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the US., Americanization of Native Americans - Assimilation into American culture. example: becoming Christian, going to white schools, looking like settlers., Gold Rush - A period from 1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search for gold., Reservations - Areas of federal land set aside in sparsely populated areas of the West, for Native Americans to live. (A result of the Dawes Act), Barbed wire - Used to fence in land on the Great Plains, eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.,

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