HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Alaska Purchase, Teller Amendment, Mexican–American War
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Go west: the west was the promise land: the american west is anything west of the mississippi, three main groups of people who move west after the civil war: mormons. States of america: the new leader, young, decides that he has to move the mormons out -- to unincorporated utah territory, takes nearly a year and settles in the salt lake basin. The sioux wars: the sioux start having ghts with american territory as soon as they show up. Americans once and for all: it is the idea of the ghost dance that leads to their ultimate defeat, the americans forced the sioux to give up and assimilate, wounded knee massacre ensues. Spanish-american war: spanish empire is not as strong, but it still has cuba, philippines, and a few island in the paci c, americans payed close attention to cuba -- unrest in cuba will affect united states of.